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Jeremy Phillipson

Professor Jeremy Phillipson

Jeremy is Professor of Rural Development at Newcastle University and coordinator of Rural Enterprise UK.

How should delivery of the Industrial Strategy embrace rural economies?

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England’s rural areas in 2017 generated gross value added of at least £246 billion and employ 3.5 million people. In this blog, Professor Jeremy Phillipson and Roger Turner, Rural Enterprise UK, Newcastle University, argue the government's modern Industrial Strategy is focussed on creating growth and opportunities for places all over our country.