Despite assurances given in October that Japanese car manufacturer would continue with plans to invest in Sunderland plant after EU exit. / Nissan said it may “adjust” its business in the UK, depending on how Brexit turns out, potentially jeopardising 7,000 jobs at its Sunderland plant.

Car manufacturers appear to be hitting the accelerator out of Britain as the country moves toward an exit from the European Union. More than 1,000 jobs are set to be lost at Ford's engine plant in Wales, German auto-maker BMW is reportedly considering the viability of its Mini plant in Oxford while Nissan wants the U.K. government to guarantee suppliers for its plant in North East England.

Daimler-owned brand looked into using Nissan’s Sunderland plant to manufacture cars

The firm, which employs thousands of people in Sunderland, will reportedly make the announcement on Monday.

Production of four of Nissan's car models in Sunderland fell by 10.7% in 2018 according to SMMT research.

The chairman of Nissan Europe has written to factory staff to confirm it will cancel plans.

Business secretary vowed to maintain manufacturers’ capacity to trade with EU

Jonathan Vernon-Smith talks about manufacturing and brexit job losses with Jason J Hunter and Graham 'George' Gudgin.

Letter revealing the financial support is finally released – more than two years after No 10 insisted had been no ‘special deal’.

Alarm raised after Nissan decision to halt expansion of Sunderland car plant.

We are thrilled to have the great MARK GATISS – writer, star of ‘The League Of Gentlemen‘, 'Sherlock' and 'Doctor Who', and five-star unyielding Remainer – as this week’s special guest on Remainiacs. / Why “alternative arrangements” means yet more blind man’s Brexit. Why Labour really fears the Backstop. More on the shameless liar Daniel Kawcynzski MP.

Insisting that all will somehow be well if Brexit goes through now is an abdication of responsibility.

Eight Labour MPs including Luciana Berger and Chuka Umunna quit Labour over anti-semitism and Corbyn’s intransigence over Brexit. Then three Tory women – Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Sarah Woollaston – resign from the party they now say is irrevocably dominated by the hard Right and its ERG extremists. What can the Independent Group achieve and what must they do to achieve it?

Nissan, Honda and Hitachi were the pillars of an Anglo-Japanese accord dating back to the 1980s. That deal is now in ruins.

Dozens of companies have cut jobs, beefed up their European operations or issued warnings on the impact of the UK's departure from the EU.

Firms including BMW and Toyota warn of potential UK job losses and plant closures.

A no-deal Brexit would cost Japanese carmakers in Britain more than $1bn a year if 10% tariffs were imposed on trade between the UK and EU, new analysis suggests.

Hostile immigration policies will do untold damage to the UK’s manufacturing industry. It is baffling that the government is willing to implement such a strategy, says Lord Bilimoria.

As the prospect of no deal looms, even the promises of aid offered by the May government seem a distant memory.

Japan's richest man has warned that Brexit is "practically impossible" and could take the United Kingdom back to the economic stagnation of the 1970s when the country was often described as the "sick man of Europe."

Japanese car maker Nissan will review its decision to build the Qashqai 4x4 in England if Britain leaves the EU without a deal, potentially leading to the closure of the Sunderland plant, the Financial Times reported.

Gianluca de Ficci delivered the starkest warning yet to our Industry Correspondent.

French oil giant Total SA is relocating a key part of its finance operation from London to Paris less than a month before Britain leaves the European Union.

The Chancellor has warned there will be no alignment with EU regulations after Brexit - despite a pledge being made in the North East by Boris Johnson that standards would be protected.