Nicola Sturgeon blamed austerity measures for Britain’s decision to quit the European Union, after a Leave campaign that the Scottish first minister had opposed philip toscano/PAThe economy is “visibly uneven” and a new industrial strategy must focus on spreading wealth across the nation, the new business, energy and industrial strategy secretary has said. Greg Clark, speaking at the Institute of Directors’ annual conference in London, said that a successful industrial strategy for UK “has to be local” and added that “for too long government policy has treated everywhere like it is identical”. In his first big speech before business leaders, Mr Clark’s comments appeared to criticise David Cameron and George Osborne’s handling of the economy, arguing that the government strategy “must reflect” that Cornwall and…

Source: The Times September 27, 2016 23:03 UTC