The government’s rebranding of industrial strategy is light on detail and lacks oversight
The point about industrial strategies, surely, is that governments have to stick with them. Otherwise they aren’t really strategies and are more like branding exercises.
Curiously enough, that’s the description suggested by Kwasi Kwarteng, secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS), in a letter this week. “The government has decided to mark a departure from the industrial strategy brand,” he wrote, informing members of the Industry Strategy Council, the independent oversight body, that their services are no longer required.
