>a programme to create thousands of new apprenticeships in the steel industry in the region

It seems very cruel to put people into a job market where the entire industry is undercut by China and has very little reason to exist, besides a nominal interest by the government in security.

If you want to challenge China, you have to embrace Chinese poverty, how else are you going to make profitable steel? You have higher energy prices, higher labor cost, higher construction cost and more bureaucracy and you want to compete?

>I couldn’t help feel they’d probably do better if you just taught them to code, even in this job market

Seems very cruel to put people into a job market where the entire industry is undercut by India.