Brexit Is COLLAPSING [12 mins]
17/05/2023
We were promised sunny uplands and a oven ready deal: instead we've been served extra helpings of cow excrement. As Nigel Farage admits Brexit is a disaster, car manufacturers threaten to walk and Keir Starmer calls for a renegotiation, it's time to accept reality.
Wales' automotive industry faces more challenges over future Brexit trade changes, according to experts. / The Welsh Automotive Forum said new checks on imports and rules over where car parts can come from could add to customs disruption when they are introduced.
Brexit: What is the customs union? [2 mins]
17/11/2018
One term that keeps cropping up in discussions around Brexit is the customs union. What is it and how does it work?
Trade will be ‘day-to day struggle’ after Brexit is completed, MPs told in grim industry forecast
30/09/2020
Inquiry hears of massive extra costs, a mountain of red tape, shrinking investment and chemicals ‘disappearing’ from UK market.
The UK's largest car manufacturing plant is "unsustainable" if the UK leaves the European Union without a trade deal, owner Nissan says.
The Chairman of @NissanEurope flew to Sunderland to say a no-deal Brexit could eventually lead to the closure of the plant.
11/10/2010
Gianluca de Ficci delivered the starkest warning yet to our Industry Correspondent.
UK car output slumps for 12th month in a row
27/06/2019
The year-long decline in British car production shows no sign of slowing down as May saw another drop-off. As Francis Maguire reports, Brexit uncertainty and investment in electric is forcing car companies to cut costs.
During the EU referendum campaign, prominent Leavers were confident that the German car industry would call on Angela Merkel to give the UK a favourable deal to protect export interests. But is that really the case? Naga Munchetty reports from Leipzig.
Journalist Peter Oborne admitted to James that he had made a mistaken analysis. Now he thinks that fellow Brexiteers must swallow their pride and think again.
Another carmaker slams the brakes on prospects for its UK workers if Britain leaves the EU without a deal.
Jonathan Vernon-Smith talks about manufacturing and brexit job losses with Jason J Hunter and Graham 'George' Gudgin.