Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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People across the political spectrum say that the UK needs an industrial strategy.

In fact, it was industrial strategy that killed our industry in the first place - Attlee is more to blame than Thatcher.

Industrial Strategy destroyed Birmingham and many other areas in the West Midlands.

If you want to find out more, click the link below to read Sam Bidwell's paper 'How Industrial Strategy Killed British Industry.'

adamsmith.org/blog/how-industrial-strategy-killed-british-industry

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Start
01:04 Industrial Revolution
04:50 Industrial Decline
07:00 Bouncing Back
09:13 Adapting to Industrial Change
09:40 Clement Attlee
10:42 Constraining Birmingham
11:40 The Decline of Leicester
12:50 Harold Wilson
13:27 Economic Liberalisation
14:11 The Problem with Industrial Strategy
14:56 Overseas Examples
15:35 What Can We Do?
18:35 Conclusion