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    The industrial strategy has been replaced by a growing list of plans from different parts of government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

  • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    UK’s post Brexit subsidy plan, the details behind the Asda deal

    Government to set out proposals for a simpler, more 'nimble' system of state subsidies

  • Tuesday, 29 June, 2021
    UK unveils post-Brexit state aid scheme to support industry

    Promise of nimbler system with less red tape but tensions likely with devolved governments

  • Tuesday, 29 June, 2021
    Electric vehicles
    UK motor industry warns jobs at risk without more state funds

    Government urged to increase its spending to attract investment in electric vehicle batteries

  • Sunday, 27 June, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    MPs criticise UK government plan for economic recovery

    Ministers have produced a poor replacement for previous industrial strategy, report says

  • Saturday, 26 June, 2021
    Hetan Shah
    Britain suffers from outdated thinking on innovation

    For the government’s new strategy to be any good, it must reflect the reality of the UK economy

  • Friday, 25 June, 2021
    UK government spending
    Science schools and R&D spending at forefront of UK innovation plans

    Ministers draw up strategy that aims to make Britain a ‘global leader’

  • Monday, 24 May, 2021
    Tony Danker
    Britain will only prosper if government and business work together

    Other countries have already set out plans for post-pandemic economic growth. Where is ours?

  • Sunday, 23 May, 2021
    Confederation of British Industry
    CBI calls for regulation reform in its £700bn plan to boost economy

    Employers’ group seeks to reset at times fractious relations with ministers after Brexit

  • Thursday, 29 April, 2021
    MPs criticise UK industrial fund over failure to focus on results

    Commons committee calls for overhaul of flagship programme that has invested £1.2bn since 2017 launch

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    UK ministers write to business to defend scrapping industrial strategy

    Chancellor and business secretary explain their new ‘plan for growth’ after change in economic circumstances

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    Pressure grows to accelerate £250m green fund for UK steel industry

    Support package launched before last election but money will not start to be distributed until 2023

  • Tuesday, 23 March, 2021
    Andy Haldane
    UK industrial strategy is dead, long may it live

    The success of Britain’s Covid vaccine programme contains invaluable lessons for future growth

  • Tuesday, 9 March, 2021
    Helen Thomas
    Wanted: a long-term strategy for UK business

    The government has gone cold on the idea of an industrial strategy just at the point it needs it most

  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    Business dismay at decision to drop plan for UK industrial strategy

    Move to more ad hoc approach for economic support draws fire from opposition and lobby groups

  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    UK industrial strategy refresh ditched as ministers set out plan for growth

    Chancellor Rishi Sunak to announce post-pandemic economic strategy in the coming weeks

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