Claim: This year Britain overtook France to become the 8th largest manufacturing nation.
Fact-check: Kemi Badenoch's comments on UK manufacturing success use data from 2021 - Full Fact
Verdict: the figures, while published in september this year, actually refer to 2021. more recent alternative data suggests that manufacturing in the uk has since fallen to slightly below that of france.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Tony Thompson
Date published: 2023-12-07T00:00:00