Keir Starmer blames Tory failures as new figures show manufacturing jobs have fallen by 93,000 since 2009

Labour will pledge this week to reverse the decline in manufacturing, as new figures show a fall of 93,000 jobs in the sector since the Conservatives took power.

Touring the north-west of England on Tuesday, Keir Starmer will highlight figures in Germany, where more than 1 million manufacturing jobs have been created over the same period.

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