Burnham wants to revive British industry. This is why he’ll fail
Sander Tordoir, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, warns the West’s “dangerous” dependency on imports is one of the main reasons policymakers in the US and Europe are pushing for reindustrialisation – with Beijing seen as a far from benevolent trading partner.
“There is a deeper geostrategic rationale underlying the desire to reindustrialise,” Tordoir adds.