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I recently chatted to Andrea Wilson at Hone-All regarding ‘Honing and Deep Hole Drilling’ content for this issue (see pages 20-21), but as regular users of LinkedIn connected to Andrea will testify, she’s also been pretty busy launching a campaign to convince government to appoint a dedicated Manufacturing Minister. But let’s rewind a bit.
When I first visited Andrea at the Hone-All site in Leighton Buzzard about 10 years ago, we talked about this. Vince Cable at the time was Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and although he was doing a reasonable job if I remember correctly, Andrea mentioned that what we really need is a dedicated person at government level looking after the interests and needs of manufacturing companies and SMEs.
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