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Good panel discussion this morning at launch of @UKandEU report 
on Brexit and Manufacturing. Video will be available soon but here's a few of my points. Covid-19 has blown away all assumptions about growth after Brexit.
#ManufacturingBrexit
on Brexit and Manufacturing. Video will be available soon but here's a few of my points. Covid-19 has blown away all assumptions about growth after Brexit.#ManufacturingBrexit
Regardless of Brexit, we should be talking more about manufacturing.
#ManufacturingBrexit
#ManufacturingBrexit
The report quite rightly identifies the complexities faced by manufacturers. The pandemic, a German-EU presidency, and strong majority in Parliament bodes well for a deal by the end of the year.
Whatever the Brexit arrangements, underlying British challenges remain. We don't train enough and don't invest in technology, machinery and power. We need to do more on this.
#ManufacturingBrexit
#ManufacturingBrexit
What often happens in manufacturing discussions, is smaller enterprises not part of a global firm, and important to our manufacturing base, are forgotten.
#ManufacturingBrexit
#ManufacturingBrexit
We need to make sure our manufacturing discussions include smaller enterprises embedded in our communities, and they're given help to grow.
#ManufacturingBrexit
#ManufacturingBrexit
States of left and right are subsidizing businesses and the UK/EU negotiating teams don't operate in a bubble. A deal will have to recognise that reality within a framework which is effective but maybe less prescriptive. #ManufacturingBrexit
Companies using temporary movements of labour or seasonal workers was not the problem. It was why a short term job should lead to residency rights with some employers not training up a UK workforce when they coukd import one. #ManufacturingBrexit
Measures which combine a reasonably generous visa regime with training obligations alongside imposed sector by sector. Alongside a nationally backed education/training initiative, regions playing a bigger role with incentives for employers. #ManufacturingBrexit
The worst of the threats and challenges will be seen off by a mixture of Johnsonian pragmatism and EU willingness to accommodate some variation and divergence. In the end the gloomsters and doomsters could be proven wrong again. #ManufacturingBrexit
Hard to believe a century ago living standards in the North were higher than in London. A UK revival that benefits regions beyond London and the SE must have manufacturing at its heart. Manufacturing is twice as important in Germany, Switzerland and Singapore #ManufacturingBrexit
We don't train enough and we don't invest much more than replacing old machinery. China, Korea and Singapore grow faster because they invest in machinery, technology and power. So must we to make more & sell more in a post Brexit Britain that is fairer. #ManufacturingBrexit
