Listen to manufacturers and unions: high electricity prices are killing industry | Nils Pratley

Make UK and TUC are right – ministers need a proper strategy to cut energy costs before there are more closures Britain ‘faces deindustrialisation’ without relief from high energy prices The manufacturing lobby group Make UK and the Trades Union Congress have picked a bad moment to plead for urgent relief for the nation’s industrial companies from sky-high electricity prices. The cabinet is tearing itself apart over defence spending , so even a “one minute to midnight” call for an extra £3bn for manufacturers is likely to be shunted into the long grass until after the likely Labour leadership

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