What does Britain need? More robots

On Monday, the Queen’s Speech set out the government’s legislative plans, starting with tackling all things Brexit, before laying out a radical programme to shake the country out of its current torpor.

Leaving aside whether any of this legislative programme manages to get through parliament, I would argue that one of the most critical issues has already been uncovered.

Just under a month ago, the Select Committee for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) concluded that: “The problem for the UK labour market and our economy is not that we have too many robots in the workplace, but that we have too few.”

 

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