Um yeh. The manufacturing PMI reached just under 60 when Labour left office and it then slumped into contraction territory under the coalition. As Stewart Lee's mate says, "you can prove anything with facts". Let's have yours, if your doubt.
Interesting that the Bank of England today still kept...
Uk manufacturing was growing when the Tory coalition took took charge, then slumped after Osborne's March 2011 budget, and has recently been growing again. It's like Bournemouth claiming they should be in the Premiership now because they won a few games in March and April.