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The UK needs a new industrial strategy or it will lose the global green subsidy race

Written by Phil Tomlinson, Professor of Industrial Strategy, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS), University of Bath

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UK businesses have criticised the government for the lack of a clear industrial policy. Industry body Make UK has warned the country “risks being squeezed” by US and EU green subsidy packages.

Outside the UK, industrial policy is back – and in a big way. Around the...

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