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By: Geoffrey Owen

Sir Geoffrey Owen is Head of Industrial Strategy at Policy Exchange and a former editor of the Financial Times

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  • A healthy motor industry for the UK needs gigafactories like the one Tata will build

    Geoffrey Owen

    The Tata gigafactory could be an opportunity to reflect on what the government should and shouldn't do to support the vital, but hard-pressed, British motor industry, writes Geoffrey Owen

  • Only clear thinking will put the UK’s scientific agenda on the right track

    Geoffrey Owen

    Money is short. Across the board, government departments are under extreme pressure to spend less, and the new Business Secretary, Grant Shapps, finds himself in a difficult situation. In recent months his department has been bombarded with requests for funding from a range of industrial companies, most of which can make a plausible case for [...]

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