The United Kingdom has been trying to plan its industrial future in new post-Brexit conditions and new world conditions. A government document called "Building a Britain for the Future" has been issued and there have been many references to past attempts at national plans and strategies in the U.K. over the last 50 years, most of which have had limited success.
Guidance has also been sought from abroad and from successful programs of industrial renewal such as in Germany after World War II, and in Japan twice over — once in the 19th century with the Meiji Restoration and once from the ashes of World War II to global industrial pre-eminence.
The question for Britain is whether this kind of amazing national revival and success can be emulated in the age of globalization and digital revolution. Producing a blueprint of aims is one thing, implementing it is quite another. Updating the physical infrastructure is always a problem in a country like the U.K., where the landmass is so limited and every centimeter of countryside environment rightly treasured for its undoubted beauty. And raising educational standards, especially for technical education and training, to the levels required in the new age is also a major ongoing challenge. These are not new issues and they are being resolutely addressed in the U.K. on a continuing basis, as in many other countries.