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  • 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

  • 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

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