Annual Summit
Last week Vacancysoft convened its annual summit against a backdrop of mounting scrutiny of Britain’s industrial strategy and its tangible effects on the labour market.
Annual Summit – How the £80bn Industrial Strategy Is reshaping the UK jobs market
The UK’s £80 billion industrial strategy is driving investment into priority sectors such as artificial intelligence, clean energy, life sciences and telecoms, but early job gains remain concentrated, uneven, and in some cases delayed by regulatory and structural constraints. As geopolitical pressures and political uncertainty grow, questions remain over how widely employment benefits will spread and whether the strategy would survive a future change in government.
