The reopening of shops tomorrow offers hope of recovery. But with new forecasts of the economic challenges after Covid, our writer asks: will we end decades of orthodoxy and follow Europe by investing state funds into our struggling industries?
Approaching the Jaguar Land Rover assembly works in Castle Bromwich, the eye is drawn to a 16 metre-high sculpture commemorating the wartime production of Spitfires. In the summer of 1940, this was the industrial site where the fighter planes which won the Battle of Britain were built. A couple of hundred yards down from “Spitfire Island”, a source of 21st-century manufacturing pride is on display.
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