Among those in the wrong hands are the world s largest security company G4S, employing 533,000 people across the globe, and infrastructure champion John Laing, which managed the construction of the second Severn crossing, the Prince of Wales Bridge.
Most buyers are more interested in short-term returns, rather than Building Back Better or levelling up – the favourite mantras of the Government. There has also been private equity interest in the UK s depleted aerospace and engineering sector at engineer Senior and Ultra Electronics.
If you want to understand why there is so little consistency in the way Whitehall handles bids for British industrial and manufacturing gems, look no further than the grandiloquently named but universally deprecated Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
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