Virtually as she stepped into Number 10, Prime Minister Theresa May indicated a new attitude of the UK’s Conservative government towards manufacturing and industrial policy. It was a welcome shift from a party who have consistently undermined British manufacturing communities like my own in the last 40 years. Now there is an opportunity to put words into deeds by taking a stake in the development of 21st century climate change infrastructure urgently needed by our industries; leading Europe and re-joining the global vanguard.