Wednesday, February 23

Manufacturing ‘underestimated’, says Green

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Most people in the UK “grossly underestimate” the value to the economy of manufacturing, according to Lord Green, the new trade minister.

“If you ask people at a dinner party the number of vehicles that the UK makes a year, they are likely to say it’s about 100,000 when in reality it’s almost 15 times bigger,” says the former HSBC chairman, who took up his government job last month.

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/480e86fe-37a1-11e0-b91a-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss&ftcamp=crm/email/2011214/nbe/UKBusiness/product#axzz1E2yQVBn8

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