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    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Tej Parikh
      Britain needs to decide what it wants to be good at

      Sunak’s government is suspicious of industrial policy but it needs to focus on sectors where the UK has a global role

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      Jaguar Land Rover Ltd
      Jaguar Land Rover owner demands £500mn from UK for battery factory

      Tata Motors will decide between Somerset and Spain for new plant within weeks

    • Sunday, 12 February, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      A UK government revamp in search of a strategy

      Reorganisation of business, energy and technology is the latest in a long line

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Geoffrey Owen
      The merry-go-round of business ministry remodelling starts again

      Hived off, put back together, renamed and refashioned, the UK’s industry department could do with some stability

    • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
      News in-depthBritishvolt
      Britishvolt collapse prompts calls for shake-up of UK subsidy policies

      More must be done to attract investment that will be vital to energy transition, say industry insiders

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      UK business & economy
      Business complains Hunt’s UK growth plan lacks new policies

      Lobby groups express disappointment with chancellor’s ‘empty’ keynote speech

    • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
      Kwarteng rebuked for scrapping industrial policy plan

      Ex-Tory business minister Greg Clark says move by his successor was ‘mystifying’

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Disrupted Times
      Green with envy: debate heats up over US subsidies

      Also in this edition: UK strikes escalate, Goldman’s job and spending cuts, Brazil on alert for more protests

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      Helen Thomas
      Muddle over Welsh semiconductor company is a lesson in strategy

      Saga of Newport Wafer Fab is one of passing government interest and neglect

    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
      Cat Rutter Pooley
      Britishvolt: the UK’s EV strategy can’t run on fumes

      Government support is needed for Britain’s battery sector — but not necessarily for this particular start-up

    • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
      News in-depth
      Takeovers and weak pound put spotlight on UK aerospace and defence

      Contracting British ownership renews debate over future of vital industry

    • Thursday, 6 October, 2022
      John Thornhill
      Britain needs a growth strategy for the second machine age

      Rather than criticising growth-blockers, Liz Truss should be doing more to support risk-taking entrepreneurs

    • Monday, 29 August, 2022
      Geoffrey Owen
      Heirs to Thatcher ignore her lead on industrial policy

      Conservative leadership rivals should not indulge in the ‘pseudo-patriotic hysteria’ over takeovers

    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      The Big Read
      The semiconductor boom: has the UK missed its chance?

      Geopolitical uncertainty hangs over a government rethink about how to protect the domestic chip industry at a time of economic nationalism

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Science
      UK’s ‘science superpower’ goal will fail without change in strategy, warn reports

      House of Lords committee and think-tank separately urge new PM to focus on results and invest more in R&D

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Helen Thomas
      UK’s Arm-twisting confirms critics’ worst deal-vetting fears

      Using national security powers to make chip designer list in London shows drift from stated aims of new rules

    • Friday, 13 May, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      UK enterprise strategy delayed in focus on cost of living crisis

      Work on Kwarteng’s plan to boost entrepreneurship and help small businesses halted

    • Friday, 25 March, 2022
      Helen Thomas
      Why the government’s bid to boost business investment could fail

      Chancellor’s Spring Statement made no mention of the once-trumpeted Plan for Growth — and that is part of the problem

    • Monday, 20 September, 2021
      Aerospace & Defence
      Aerospace industry warns new green tech projects risk leaving UK

      Pause in R&D state funding has dismayed sector as it looks to develop electric and hydrogen-powered planes

    • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
      Helen Thomas
      Policy smog is holding back UK net zero progress

      CBI has warned the country risks being ‘complacent’ in its lack of clarity and detail on plans

    • Sunday, 22 August, 2021
      News in-depth
      Decision time for Britain on sale of key defence assets

      Planned takeover of Ultra by a US private equity firm will be a key test of Boris Johnson’s industrial policy

    • Monday, 9 August, 2021
      InterviewUK politics & policy
      Kwarteng vows to put free market approach at heart of UK’s post-Covid recovery

      Business secretary tells FT he will lay out national enterprise strategy later this year

    • Thursday, 22 July, 2021
      Helen Thomas
      UK’s strategic surplus risks confusion for business

      The industrial strategy has been replaced by a growing list of plans from different parts of government

    • Wednesday, 21 July, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      UK to overhaul funding of research and development post-Brexit

      Ministers look at initiatives to boost British competitiveness following departure from EU

    • Wednesday, 7 July, 2021
      Robert Shrimsley
      New creed of unchained Tory interventionism means a wild ride for business

      UK ministers seem ready to tear up the rule book when politics demands it

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