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Up where we belong: is Britain’s economic crisis all in the mind?

In: Going South

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  • Larry Elliott
  • Dan Atkinson

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Vince Cable, the UK business secretary, spoke to the Policy Exchange think-tank on 16 October 2011. His message was straightforward. To use a cliché beloved of the politicians of yesteryear, Britain can make it: Where once we led the way as innovators in textiles, shipbuilding and iron and steel production, we now have companies blazing a trail in frontier technologies such as new materials, robotics, software design and some renewable energies. I have recently visited highly successful manufacturing companies in sectors which we seemed to have written off, like bicycles and motorbikes; casting and forgings; machines tools, steel making and large scale car production (which you will remember was a sad joke a generation ago). So it is important we explode the myth that UK manufacturing is moribund.1

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  • Larry Elliott & Dan Atkinson, 2012. "Up where we belong: is Britain’s economic crisis all in the mind?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Going South, chapter 0, pages 195-234, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-39255-7_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-230-39255-7_7
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