Aerospace central to Britain’s economy
 Aerospace, which employs 12,000 people in the UK and is worth an annual £20 billion ($39.8 billion) to the country’s gross domestic product, “will re

 Aerospace, which employs 12,000 people in the UK and is worth an annual £20 billion ($39.8 billion) to the country’s gross domestic product, “will remain central to the British economy and our future as a high-tech manufacturing nation.”

That message came from John Hutton MP, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory reform, during an address at Farnborough yesterday morning to open the show. And in an apparent reference to the controversial plans to build a third runway at Heathrow, he asserted that the government would “take the necessary decisions on airport capacity. The British people would not forgive us if we didn’t.

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