Jaguar Land Rover boss Ralph Speth, at the same event as the PM tells Sky News that no Deal Brexit could hit its profits by £1.2bn... said he is “very very concerned” by the prospect of cross channel blockages on supply chains “stopping the production lines”
“Brexit is due to happen on march 29th next year. Currently I do not even know if any of our manufacturing facilities in the uk will be able to function on the 30th...”/2
“Brexit – jobs have been shed when they should have been created. A thousand lost as a result of diesel policy. And those numbers will be counted in the tens of thousands if we do not get right Brexit deal” /5
also confirmed that “yes, it is right” when I asked him to acknowledge leaving Single Market and Customs Union means an end to frictionless trade
No 10/. BEIS say we need to keep frictionless trade for sake of auto industry/ Airbus/ NI