As a government, we need to bring tech success to ordinary Brits’ lives

By Andy Silvester In my new role as Technology Secretary, it won’t surprise you to hear that I get hundreds of emails, and many of them end with that familiar automated line “sent from my iPhone”. I am sure everyone reading this will have had the same, and never thought twice about it. But this week, as I was thinking about the mammoth task my new department is setting out on – to make the UK a science and technology superpower – that one automated line got me thinking about what this country is capable of. Not many people who sent those emails to me will realise that every word and letter the…

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