Ray O’Rourke: ‘I’ve never seen anything like this before’

By Jonathan Owen2019-12-13T06:00:00

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Source: Michael Powell

Ray O’Rourke outlines his personal wish list for ministers and assesses the industry’s prospects for the year ahead

What is the one thing that you would like the next government to sort out once and for all?

[What] is absolutely clear is that we have to improve productivity. The government – I think it was about four or five years ago – embarked on an industrial strategy and challenged our industry to be the equivalent to automotive or aerospace by 2025. But somehow the government has not continued to drive that agenda at government level, and the point of that is to improve productivity. So it is the productivity question that needs to be answered.

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