2029: Year Zero for UK manufacturing

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According to research commissioned by the UK’s Transport and General Workers Union, the UK will no longer have a manufacturing industry by 2029.

Ninety per cent of the British people believe the government should be doing more to support manufacturing, new research by

for the

(Transport and General Workers Union) reveals this week.

According to survey results, the public wants more government support for manufacturing, including public procurement policies that benefit UK jobs and a majority are in favour of the government holding a financial stake in major companies like MG Rover.

The revelation that the public do not believe the government is doing enough to support manufacturing comes as T&G analysis of government figures shows that the rate of decline of manufacturing jobs has hastened in the last year.

T&G believes that "Year Zero" for manufacturing jobs, when manufacturing ceases in the UK, is twenty four years away, based on current projections. The figures are taken from years ending December 2003 and 2004, prior to the collapse of MG Rover.

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