Quote Originally Posted by severncity View Post
It is a commonly perceived myth that manufacturing in the U.K. is in decline. After falling back in 2008-9, manufacturing output has grown since then as shown by this graph at the link in the OP

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What’s more, since 1945 industrial production in the U.K. has increased by around 250%. Automation has led to the loss of millions of jobs but we are producing nearly three times as much now as we were at the end of WW2. This is explained in this article:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/0...uring_figures/

Which contains this graph:

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The article is 8 years old and, as can be seen from the first graph, UK manufacturing has grown significantly since it was published. The same is true of all other advanced countries. Britain is still the 9th biggest manufacturer of any state.

Here is a House of Commons report on the matter published last year:

http://researchbriefings.files.parli...09/SN05809.pdf
I would imagine he means relative to the rest of economy/other sectors.