Bring back apprentices, Chancellor!
From our UK edition
The only photo I could find of the invited audience at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry for John Healey’s first speech as Chancellor was from above and behind, so it wasn’t easy to pick out the apprentices with whom he ‘looked forward to spending time later’. Were they the four youngsters in work gear at the front? Or might they have included several balding blokes in suits, representing older trainees? Whichever, their small number, combined with Healey’s staging in front of a pair of robots, offered a metaphor of the state of UK industrial employment in a week when Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) at nearby Solihull confirmed 4,000 job cuts.
