Odd thing about Labour's green investment pledge was never its 'unaffordability'. £28bn (actually £20bn) 5 years out is small part of £1.2 trillion budget.
It's that it was only major spending pledge when big cuts in much other spending being planned. ifs.org.uk/articles/labou…

Sometimes you make a chart that surprises yourself. From Peter Foster's look at the UK's infrastructure gap on.ft.com/3U9UTQF (link is free to open)

I went to one of the world's biggest glass factories & it was REALLY cool.
Here's what I saw👇

The factory is the Encirc plant in Cheshire.
It's enormous. Acres & acres.
If you poured anything from a glass bottle in the UK this Xmas there's a good chance it came from here...
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If you’ve missed all of yesterday’s discussion about migration, here’s a brilliant recap by Ed Conway.

Migration is due to Brexit, and we desperately need it.

60 Seconds with Shannon from Hamblys in Honiton on how work experience turned in to a career and why land-based engineering offers such a rewarding and varied job #WeAreLandbased

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CLAAS UK

Looking to chat about the 4-day work week. Are you an employer who has tried it? A consultant helping organisations implement it? Do you have a view on whether it's still relevant in the hybrid workplace? #journorequest for Personnel Today

Published in The Times and The Sunday Times this morning.
#manufacturing #engineering #policy

Britain is burdened with weak demand for valuable #skills , not over-supply of skills, asserts the chief data reporter at Financial Times. Thought-provoking article.
#STEM #engineering #manufacturing #investment #growth

Many thanks to Policy Connect for the opportunity to contribute to the launch of this excellent report. #engineering #manufacturing #skills #STEM #supplychain #tradeassociations

Looking forward to this outstanding annual forum, now in its sixth year. Very pleased that EAMA will have a small stand at the event.
UK Export Finance should be on the checklist of all engineering exporters.
#export #trade #finance #advancedengineering #manufacturing #SMEs #growth

the prime minister has gone from promising a list of supposedly concrete projects (to replace HS2) to saying they were only illustrative” 🤯

A calm, honest analysis of Europe’s #competitiveness is overdue.

At its heart is the question: do we actually have a problem?

Sadly, for Orgalim - representing 1/3 of Europe’s manufacturing base and its critical net zero tech value chains - the answer is an emphatic yes.

EAMA was one of the dozens of firms and trade bodies which, The Guardian reports, supported this letter.
theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

A significant graph from Germany's ambassador to the UK, which, I suspect, will surprise a lot of people.

I'm showing my age, but there was a time Conservatives believed in something called the rule of law dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Excellent and shocking review of university funding. Safe to assume that vital #engineering degrees are at the sharp end of this crisis due to costs and that #SMEs will be worst-hit among companies. #skills #manufacturing #growth

Today's announcement by the @tradegovukMEAP is excellent news and what EAMA members have been waiting for. (Not the end of the story, though.) #UKCA #CE #advancedengineering #machinery #trade
gov.uk/government/new…

A number of valuable ancient clay lamps, sent from Israel to an exhibition in Washington DC in 2019, were stranded in the US because of Covid. They’ve turned up at — guess where? — Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The Israelis are having problems getting them back.

Harriet Harman appears teary-eyed as Tory MP Laura Farris MP pays tribute to her work and reminds the Commons she took up the role of privileges committee chair not long after her husband died.

Great to see the High Value Manufacturing Catapult referencing its vision of UK manufacturing's contribution to GDP doubling from 10% to 20%.
#growth #manufacturing #advancedengineering #productivity #NetZero #greenshoring

hvm.catapult.org.uk/news/greenshor…