Conservative AM Darren Millar criticised the assembly government's failure to publish a manufacturing strategy and stressed the importance of "getting prosperity back on track".

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The strength of the pound is being blamed for the failure of the Rover car company and the troubles of British manufacturing.

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Not only did that prevent the repeat of a failure, but it sometimes led to valuable insights on, say, how to make a manufacturing process more efficient.

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