Council had a strong cast of wise figures who did their job and scrutinised policy – so had to go
The government’s old industry strategy – the one inherited from Theresa May’s administration – was “a pudding without a theme”, Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, said the other day as he sang the praises of the chancellor’s new “build back better” plan to rewire the economy.
Up to a point, the Industrial Strategy Council (ISC), the body that was set up to monitor the strategy, might agree. It had, after all, judged the 2017 strategy and its 142 policy measures to be spread too thinly.
