Manufacturing
Osborne’s ‘march of the makers’ is beating a retreat
Manufacturing - the great hope for George Osborne to lift the UK economy from sluggish growth - is going into reverse.
Cameron falls down on his economic balancing act
The majority of British manufacturers said in a recent poll that David Cameron's government have the wrong strategy on rebalancing the economy.
Manufacturing continues to hold up the economy
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) today announced a 1.0 per cent increase in UK manufacturing output in January, reports Tony Dolphin.
McFadden turns on Tory manufacturing policy
Pat McFadden spoke last night on 'The new industrial revolution'. He discussed the future low carbon economy and attacked the Tory approach to manufacturing.
Manufacturing decline ended in January
While the OECD and other forecasters continue to pump out gloomy assessments of the outlook for the UK economy, most commentators appear not to have noticed that the decline in manufacturing activity ended as long ago as January.