We will lose more firms and jobs before the Brexit nightmare is over
How will a former car plant worker react to Suella Braverman suggesting they go out and pick fruit for the minimum wage, asks James Moore
To think there are people who thought that Brexit was finally “done” after Rishi Sunak negotiated the Windsor Framework.
Back from trade talks in Switzerland, business secretary Kemi Badenoch found herself meeting with bosses from Stellantis – one of the world’s five biggest carmakers with a strong 16-brand portfolio including Vauxhall, Fiat, Citroen, Alfa Romeo, Peugeot, and Jeep.
It is an important player in one of this country’s more successful industries (or at least it was), with electric vehicle plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton, both of which employ a lot of people in well-paid manufacturing jobs that are otherwise hard to come by.
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