Dorries used the annual Tech Week event to announce the government’s newly updated Digital Strategy, which details a road map towards making the UK a tech superpower, boosting the economy as a result.
Dorries said the Strategy would also involve creating a new Digital Skills Council to help “plug the skills gap” in the tech sector, as well as looking to “capitalise on the freedoms we now have to set our own standards and regulations” now that the UK has left the EU.
The policy paper states that the UK will be "the best place in the world to start and grow a technology business". It also claims that "estimates commissioned by the Government suggest that our approach to supporting and strengthening the digital economy could grow the UK tech sector’s annual gross value added (GVA) by an additional £41.5bn by 2025 and create a further 678,000 jobs".
The policy paper's introduction also draws specific attention to the UK's - more specifically...