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Unite has urged the government to appoint a new minister for manufacturing tasked with expanding Britain's industrial base.
Manufacturing is 9 per cent below 2008 figures with only automotive and aerospace production in Britain showing any signs of recovery.
Excluding transport from the figures, the industry lags 13 per cent below pre-recession levels.
Trade unions call for windfall tax hike to fund social energy tariff to public’s energy bills
Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
