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Low trust and high-carbon jobs

After years of neglect, how can the industrial heartlands believe in government plans for change?

It’s not too late to nationalise British Steel

Time to rethink a failed economic model

Who are you calling 'deliberately misleading'?

We used Department for Transport numbers to show the projected value of Heathrow's third runway is now below zero

Carillion's collapse matters more than you thought

PFI increased costs and cut quality. But there are alternatives.

As Brexit dominates, its causes are being forgotten

The perennial and tragic irony is that the very conditions which led to Brexit are being eclipsed by the government's total preoccupation with it.

Fracking: cognitive dissonance on an industrial scale

How long can the Government push clean and dirty energy at the same time?

Where was social care?

An industrial strategy with people at its foundations cannot gloss over the care sector.

The rhetoric is fine but why is this industrial strategy so underwhelming?

Industrial strategy should begin with place and work upwards.

Not fade away

Industrial policy cannot ignore Britain’s lower paid, less productive and less glamorous industries

Back to the future

This party conference season, who will focus on what really matters in the economy?

Theresa May's industrial vision cannot work

Britain’s industrial strategy is incompatible with a hard Brexit.

5 priorities for the Autumn Statement

Our suggested in-tray for Chancellor Phillip Hammond

Why Heathrow expansion is deeply unfair

Increasing airport capacity benefits a few at the top and leaves the majority behind

Three things we’ve learned from the steel crisis