Frankly, I Doubt If He Can Remove All The Leftist Bigotry That Has To Go First.

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Sunday, 4 October 2026 Issue No. 581

Good morning. Andy Burnham has made reindustrialisation the central pillar of his plan to revitalise Britain. It would mean the reversal of a trend that has been going on for decades, as the service sector now generates most of our economic output. Are the Prime Minister’s plans feasible? Are they responsible? Matt Oliver, our Industry Editor, investigates below. Elsewhere, in this week’s Music of the Decades instalment, Neil McCormick, our Chief Music Critic, counts down the best songs of the 1990s. From Oasis to Blur and Britney Spears to Madonna, read on to see who made Neil’s list of top artists, and you can read his rankings of previous musical decades, too. Allister Heath, Sunday Telegraph Editor P.S. We’re giving you a whole year of The Telegraph for just £29. If you’re already a subscriber, make sure you’re logged in to read today’s stories.   In today’s edition Flydubai hijacker’s hateful rants while studying at British university — The remarkable stories behind 11 of the Royal family’s favourite jewels — Plus, ‘I’m a breast cancer surgeon, this is what I want every woman to know about the disease’

Welcome to From the Editor, Britain’s most popular daily newsletter. You are receiving this email because you recently signed up to The Telegraph. Every morning, we’ll bring you the biggest stories and expert analysis from across our newsroom, hand-picked by the Editor. To make sure you don’t miss our newsletters, we recommend moving this email to your primary tab – our guide to email preferences explains how. If you have technical questions, please contact us here or visit our newsletters help page. For assistance with your subscription, please visit our help page.   Try one year for just £29 Unlock this newsletter, plus full access to our website and app for less than £2.50 a month. Claim your offer   Burnham wants to revive British industry. This is why he’ll fail Matt Oliver Industry Editor   Speaking at Labour’s annual conference last week, Andy Burnham pledged to usher in a “new age of industrialisation” for Britain. It’s a policy that’s gone down well with the party’s membership and union backers, particularly as the Prime Minister has vowed a bigger role for the state. Even so, what does more industrialisation really mean? That part, experts say, remains far from clear, and achieving it is far from easy. As a share of Britain’s economic output, manufacturing has been in decline for decades, having gone from accounting for 30 per cent of all jobs in the 1970s to less than 8 per cent today. There are powerful structural forces behind this change, not least growing competition from countries such as China and soaring energy costs. While Burnham and John Healey, the Chancellor, are pledging to reboot British industry, critics say the rest of their economic agenda seems almost perfectly designed to achieve the opposite. Increases to national insurance contributions, more onerous employment laws and carbon taxes on energy consumption are just a few of the things that have pushed up costs for businesses. This is why Make UK, the manufacturers’ body, has warned that factories face an “existential threat”. With my colleagues Szu Ping Chan and Emma Taggart, I asked economists, businesses and experts what they thought about Labour’s plan to reindustrialise Britain. Continue reading ➤