Soumaya Keynes
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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was the only area that had worse job satisfaction than manufacturing.
So I think there is a risk of kind of, you know, putting manufacturing jobs on this pedestal as these amazing things that we should all go back to.
I think today we need to be asking questions about whether it is healthy for so much of the world's manufacturing capacity to be in one place and what that means if there is a future conflict, what it means if one country has so much power over a supply chain that they can use that for economic coercion.
And that's a little bit more nuanced than this kind of simple globalization, good or evil.
Yeah, I mean, you know, clearly there are many people who have great jobs in manufacturing.
You know, there are many amazing manufacturing businesses in the UK that are really high value added.
You know, I guess I worry that, you know, if as a government policy, we're trying to grow the sector, you know...
Is it that the kind of jobs that will come back, will they be exactly the same?
Could they be much more intense?
Could they be much more automated?
It's a hard thing to do.
no I'd be amazing I have I have great fine motor skills when I was a child my mum got me beading hair clips and I made like 50 for the school fair and like it was child labour um but I was absolutely incredible at it I don't have my fine motor skills are not that great and I get bored so you're right about me um one final uh sort of biggish question um
Yeah, I mean, in an increasingly power-based world, we chose precisely the wrong time to disentangle ourselves from one of the biggest economic actors out there.
I guess with the caveat that sometimes the EU punches a bit below its weight because of the internal divisions.
I think thinking about the UK's strategy from here on is really interesting, though, because in a world in which
you know, we're not facing any pressure from other countries, then really the rational thing to do is just to avoid choosing between the various countries, right?
We want to maintain access to the US market.
We want to carry on buying cheap Chinese stuff, right?
That helps with our net zero ambitions.
And we want to stay close to the EU.
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