Re: The Minister for the Northern powerhouse
There is such a shortage in demand for steel that we import railway lines from Italy, Bridge girders from Ireland and who knows what from India and China. It maybe that we making the wrong kind of steel but surely R&D should be looking into developing new materials for specific uses. The industrial revolution drove the creation of many of the materials we use today but we stopped developing things in favour of reusing what we already had. Successive governments seem to have done their best to discourage heavy industry in this country in favour of the softer options like insurance and banking.
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