Industrial strategy is welcome, but good intentions are never enough

There’s much to like in the white paper, but credibility and longevity of approach hinges on how government is held to accountHurrah, the UK now has an industrial strategy – or, rather, a strategy that is designed to last longer than the next change of business secretary. We may also have conquered the national hang-up about government intervening to support business. And, on paper, there is now official acknowledgment that the geographically lop-sized state of the UK economy, and ou