“How do we fire up the innovation engine?” asked Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to the CBI’s annual conference in Birmingham yesterday.
While acknowledging that education is “the closest thing we have to a silver bullet in public policy,” there were precisely 0 mentions of universities in nearly fifteen minutes of speech. Now, there were plenty of mentions of business, innovation, visa regimes, world class education, and the like, so let’s not get too disheartened.
