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Industrial policy

September 2024

  • Containers piled high at Felixstowe port

    Labour urged to place trade union members on wealth fund board

    Exclusive: Campaigners claim move would offset City influence over infrastructure taskforce and better share benefits

August 2024

  • Striking RMT workers picketing Euston station in London, July 2023.

    The Guardian view on trade unions: good for capitalism

  • Wind turbines and electricity pylons dominate the landscape at Ince Marshes in Runcorn, Cheshire

    Ministers urged to step in to save UK firms struggling with high energy costs

  • Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves look at robotic equipment at a materials research facility in Liverpool last October.

    Renewed calls for UK industrial strategy to bring in investment and fix Brexit damage

  • Martin Kettle

    Workers v bosses: the right is obsessed with zero-sum rows over trade union power. Starmer is right to ignore them

    Martin Kettle

  • The Guardian view on striking vets: standing up for all creatures great and small

  • The Guardian view on Labour and the trade unions: thrust together by more than history

  • Manufacturers and unions join forces to press for UK industrial strategy

  • Economics viewpoint
    A simple solution to Rachel Reeves’ spending cuts? Stop subsidising the banks

    Larry Elliott

  • Labour axes ‘gimmick’ anti-strike law as it plans major reset for workers’ rights

July 2024

  • Keir Starmer at the Beatrice wind farm off the Caithness coast

    Starmer to take on Labour councils that block pylons delivering clean energy

  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Call off the search to discover Starmerism. It is already beginning to reveal itself

    Andrew Rawnsley
  • two huge yellow cranes loom over the water at the shipyard with industrial buildings in the background against a grey sky

    Titanic shipyard owner Harland & Wolff awaits news of funding lifeline

  • Overhead view of the electric arc furnace facility

    Steelmakers fire up to swap centuries-old reliance on coal for electric arc furnaces

  • Keir Starmer has a plan to turn the populist tide – and Britain’s allies pray it works

    Rafael Behr

  • ‘They need to be brave’: business leaders react to Labour’s victory

May 2024

  • Aerial view of the Gullfaks C oil platform in the North Sea: it is seen as a small construction with cranes and drilling rigs in an expanse of smooth but dark grey sea which stretches to the horizon; the sky is also grey, and cloudy

    Why unions are lobbying Labour over a ‘just transition’ to cleaner energy

    Jobs and communities dependent on oil and gas sector must be considered in plan to ban North Sea licences, say GMB and Unite

April 2024

  • Aerial view of Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelwork

    Tata Steel rejects union plan to save jobs and keep Port Talbot furnace open

    Rejection of plan to keep one blast furnace open while building electric replacement ends hopes of avoiding as many as 2,800 job losses
  • A visitor tries a Meta Quest 3 headset at the Meta AI Day in London, 9 April 2024.

    Clustering of AI firms in south and east of England will foil levelling up – report

    Hi-tech ‘golden triangle’ of Oxford, Cambridge and London risks deeper regional inequalities, says thinktank
  • Construction of the car batter factory at theBlyth site had begun by the time Britishvolt had been put on ‘life support’ in the summer of 2022.

    Britishvolt ‘gigafactory’ site to be sold for £110m to US private equity firm

    Blackstone’s plans for data centre unlikely to generate thousands of jobs failed startup promised with Northumberland battery plant
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