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It proposes an industrial strategy that does not have industry at its heart, prioritising decarbonisation over re-industrialisation. The Prime Minister wishes to create the conditions in which successful businesses can emerge and grow. But an industrial strategy that does not help business improve its cost performance is likely to be a losing strategy. Access to abundant primary energy - first water power, then coal - is the development story of Britain's industrial heartlands. Yet the potential of fracking to turn the North West into the energy capital of Europe is ignored, as is developing Britain's undersea coal reserves, while the hydrocarbon-intensive chemicals sector is written out of the strategy's script. A laundry list of existing government policies is not a strategy, Darwell writes, nor does it constitute a break with business-as-usual. 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