Manufacturers increasingly are moving production back to Britain as shoddy quality and higher freight prices are undermining the cost advantage of producing goods overseas.

A report into the state of the manufacturing sector by the EEF and BDO, the accountants, finds that one in seven companies surveyed had moved production back to the UK from abroad in the past two years

Many British manufacturers have outsourced production to countries with lower labour costs, in Eastern Europe or Asia, in the past decade, a trend that has accelerated as an increasing number of British companies have fallen into foreign ownership.

But higher freight, energy and commodity costs have increased the expense of production overseas, while the recession has put pressure on companies to re-evaluate decisions on location.

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I'm not sure if this is good news or bad, one thing it means the cost of products will be higher another thing, are we now paying such miserable wages that its now cost effective. Its good we are having the work here but not if it means we'll all be worse off,customers and employees.

It would be nice to champion stuff made in England, even if its owned as you say by others, what part isn't, it might help to get us back on our feet.

Are you sayong politicians don't tell the truth? Oh come on that isn't what I've been told, more honest folk you couldn't wish to find..... thats got that lie out of the way.

Its frightening really because it means they don't have a conscience and heaven knows the whole truth in what they've done to this country. How can they lie so easily? it would choke me.

I reckon politicians have it easier than comedians. As any comic will tell you, people invariably come up to them and say "Hey, you're a comedian. Tell us a joke." But they never go up to a Government Minister and say "Hey, you're a Member of Government. Tell us a lie!"