Britain stands on “the precipice of industrial collapse” because of surging energy costs that have been pushed higher by net zero policies , according to a new report from the Prosperity Institute. It warns: “Our energy-intensive industries, from steelmaking to ceramics, from poultry processing to industrial gases, are at just 50% of their annual output in 2000.

"The industry has gone from over 800,000 jobs to under 413,500, despite Britain’s population increasing by nearly 11million in this time.” The report – Destroying the Foundations: How Net Zero Could Wreck British Industry for Good – claims high energy prices are “increasingly becoming the number one issue leading to factory closures and job losses”. Author Rian Chad Whitton insists a “thriving industrial sector is essential

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