To the rescue
Britain’s new champions are bean-counters and PowerPoint artists
IN HIS budget speech in 2011, George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, laid out a new vision for Britain’s economy. Finance would no longer race ahead of other sectors; a “march of the makers” would see manufacturing resurge. Three years later, the economy is rebalancing—but not as he thought it would.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “To the rescue”
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