An update on Brexit ; or, a forlorn search for an 'industrial strategy'.

Nissan warned that a 'hard' Brexit could lead to their ceasing investment in their plant in Sunderland. Nissan is now staying. What has happened ? Answer: an 'unspecified' amount of state aid. It seems likely that the Vauxhall plant at Ellesmere Port is similarly the beneficiary of government largesse. The British were never told that the EU was a very significant reason for Sunderland receiving the investment in the 1980s, and now no cost is high enough for Alexander to seek to conceal the costs of Brexit. The citizens of Teesside and Merseyside must be relieved ; but the 'industrial strategy' which we were promised (which was apparently the apple of Dominic Cummings' eye) this is not.