Listen to manufacturers and unions: high electricity prices are killing industry | Nils Pratley

T he manufacturing lobby group Make UK and the Trades Union Congress have picked a bad moment to plead for urgent relief for the nation’s industrial companies from sky-high electricity prices. The cabinet is tearing itself apart over defence spending , so even a “one minute to midnight” call for an extra £3bn for manufacturers is likely to be shunted into the long grass until after the likely Labour leadership contest. But the two bodies are correct on their main points. …