GKN will be stripped and sold for parts by ghouls who have no interest in making things | Will Hutton

What can we expect from a takeover led by a protege of Lord Hanson, the man who laid waste to industrial Britain?The past is never dead. When the wheeling, dealing, asset-stripping Hanson Trust finally collapsed in 2007, having played a major part in the deindustrialisation of Britain – but having greatly enriched its Thatcherite founder Lord Hanson – I thought a stake had finally being driven through the heart of a particular ghoul.Never again would our Westminster, Whitehall and Ci