Sir Roger Carr

Sir Roger Carr is chairman of BAE Systems.

Levelling up at home will support Global Britain abroad

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The notion of levelling up appeals to our sense of fairness and is a mission everyone can applaud. The government’s excellent White Paper and the wide-ranging programme of Bills announced in the Queen’s Speech are substantial developments which business can get behind. Clearly, levelling up requires government and business to work together. Companies that have

Productivity and exports: mission critical for the UK

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The Office for Budget Responsibility recently released a report revising its estimate of productivity growth down by 0.7 percentage points per year, reducing the potential output in 2021-2022 by 3 per cent. As a result, by 2023, the Office for National Statistics estimates that output per hour will be 27 per cent lower than the