Hewitt fobs off industry with a makeshift 'tsar'

摘要

The government has ditched its plans to appoint a manufac-turing 'tsar'. Industry leaders attending last week's manufacturing summit were led to believe that a post would be created to champion the sector's cause across Whitehall. But an investigation by The Engineer has uncovered that the 'chief manufacturing adviser' will concentrate only on technology, rather than the wider economic issues that have made life so difficult for manufacturers during the past year.