Breaking Come off it doomsters, Britain’s a force to be reckoned with… says Cabinet Office Minister ESTHER MCVEY EnglishHeadline

Do not let the doomsters let you know any totally different: Brexit Britain is rising as a drive to be reckoned with.

The IMF forecast the UK economic system will develop quicker than France, Germany, Italy, and Japan within the years forward.

And new UN figures present the UK was the world’s fourth largest exporter in 2022, promoting items and providers across the globe — from rising markets corresponding to Kenya and Algeria, to the US and China.

There’s extra excellent news. In addition to being the fourth largest exporter, in 2022 we have been the largest exporter of insurance coverage and pension providers and telecommunications providers — beating the US, India, China, Japan and our neighbours within the EU.

And since 2010, the UK has had the very best manufacturing productiveness progress within the G7.

Esther McVey, 56, was appointed as Minister with out Portfolio within the Cupboard Workplace on November 13, 2023

Nearly 60 per cent of our exports go to nations exterior of the EU, with billions of kilos value of British items and providers heading to america, to the Center East and to India — amongst different locations (inventory picture)

The sector accounts for round 40 per cent of our exports and is spreading prosperity proper throughout the nation. With eight in ten manufacturing jobs primarily based exterior London and the South East. That is levelling up in motion.

Nearly 60 per cent of our exports go to nations exterior of the EU, with billions of kilos value of British items and providers heading to america, to the Center East and to India — amongst different locations.

This week the Authorities celebrated this Nice British exporting success with its ‘Made within the UK, Offered to The World’ Awards.

Ten firms throughout the UK have been given the award which recognises the enterprising exporter’s spirit our companies have all through the nation.

These Awards have been organised by the Authorities’s GREAT Marketing campaign — which promotes British companies internationally and in so doing helps develop UK enterprise overseas and generate a whole lot of tens of millions for our economic system.

Because the Institute for Exports’ director normal and a choose at this yr’s awards, Marco Forgione, mentioned the sheer calibre of British companies coming into this yr was extremely excessive. It’s a testomony to the expertise and innovation pulsing by means of our economic system.

Corporations like Autoflame Engineering in Kent — certainly one of many family-owned British companies — that assist producers cut back their gas and upkeep prices by means of any certainly one of their 46 totally different patents.

And since 2010, the UK has had the very best manufacturing productiveness progress within the G7. Pictured: The G7 meet in Cornwall in 2021

Or PG Paper from Greenock, Scotland, exporting paper and packaging merchandise from its world mill companions to greater than 60 nations. And Northern Eire’s Ciga Healthcare, whose Fast Diagnostic Checks are distributed to over 80 nations worldwide, and they’re offered in large world retailers like Walmart and Walgreens.

SMEs make up 99.9 per cent of all registered firms within the UK and with the Authorities’s new on-line portal we’re serving to them to grow to be exporters if they aren’t already and to export to extra nations if they’re already exporting.

This new on-line portal supplies potential exporters with helpful steering on what guidelines they should comply with — if any and gives a step-by-step information on exporting.

I personally know the way troublesome it may be to run a enterprise, as I used to run one myself. In truth, my enterprise — Making It (UK) Ltd — supplied coaching for different small and medium enterprises, in addition to providing start-up areas for brand spanking new companies. I knew the challenges small companies face.

Now, as a Cupboard Workplace Minister, I do know this Authorities is completely behind them and relating to world commerce, Britain means enterprise.

These Authorities GREAT Awards showcase and recognise the depth and breadth of British experience. We’ve world leaders in agriculture, schooling know-how, building, engineering and extra.

I am a agency believer that you simply get the easiest out of our small companies by releasing their enormous potential and decreasing the limitations and crimson tape they face.

By means of this Authorities’s actions and campaigns, we aren’t solely supporting our thriving small companies, we’re opening up new markets for them the world over.