Johnson’s CBI speech shouldn’t be derided solely on the basis of the mocking headlines. Though that was a good start. No, of course not, look at some of the rest and ask if any of it is real, true, factual.
Sorry – quickly found figures for 2017 – which show north-east way behind south-east.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/686571/RTS_Q4_2017.pdf
“Great to be here in Tyneside, the number one exporting region of the UK. Great to be with the CBI. And I want to begin with a massive thank you to British business for keeping going, for looking after your employees, for rising to the challenge, for responding to the call for ventilators in those first dark days.
Looks to me as if the largest supplied ventilators were by Penlon in Abingdon. Not the north-east.
Here in the north-east, Nissan has decided to make an enormous bet on new electric vehicles and, together with Envision, there is now a massive new gigafactory for batteries.
There is a factory. But the massive new gigafactory has not yet been built.
Sorry – quickly found figures for 2017 – which show north-east way behind south-east.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/686571/RTS_Q4_2017.pdf
“Great to be here in Tyneside, the number one exporting region of the UK. Great to be with the CBI. And I want to begin with a massive thank you to British business for keeping going, for looking after your employees, for rising to the challenge, for responding to the call for ventilators in those first dark days.
Looks to me as if the largest supplied ventilators were by Penlon in Abingdon. Not the north-east.
Here in the north-east, Nissan has decided to make an enormous bet on new electric vehicles and, together with Envision, there is now a massive new gigafactory for batteries.
There is a factory. But the massive new gigafactory has not yet been built.