ECONOMIC GROWTH

Defending growth

Alongside next month’s Spending Review the Government will announce its Industrial Strategy, but are the growth plans for regions too similar and are combined authorities placing sufficient focus on Britain’s defence industry? Paul Marinko investigates.

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June's Spending Review is grabbing the headlines as the most eagerly anticipated political moment of the year, but the accompanying Industrial Strategy has equal billing for many.

For a Government that has made growth its middle name, the strategy's launch is a milestone ministers can ill afford to get wrong.

Paul Marinko

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