I don’t see this as likely. The current Conservative government have large factions that are ideologically opposed to state interference in the free market. H

I don’t see this as likely. The current Conservative government have large factions that are ideologically opposed to state interference in the free market. Historically they’ve preferred to promote a free market for foreign companies even at the expense of local firms. For example, this has happened in 80s and 90s when the UK had a lead in optical telecommunications and the Conservative government locked BT out of the cable TV market in favour of foreign competitors NTL and Telewest. At the time these cable companies were using old style coax and wouldn’t have been able to compete against BT using state of the art optic fibre that only BT had.