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Today we launch Brexit Forensics - a deep dive into some of the issues and sectoral changes thrown up by EU Withdrawal - starting with Cars
.. First Brexit Forensics is about to debut on All Out Politics - Car industry
1/10 Internal memo Car industry memo: Meeting with Government on customs "disillusioning" "lack of detailed information"
#brexitforensic
2/10: "blocking of our questions.. no concrete idea of how to apply [customs] proposals" - Industry expected detailed proposals to act on
3/10 ...memo concludes was a "desperate attempt" to find out basic information & "get the industry to suggest solutions" instead of offering
4/10 JLR boss tells @Skynews its investment in a massive facility in Slovakia has now become a "de facto hedge" against post-Brexit concerns
5/10 Oxford Mini Plant has contingency to increase by 50% levels of stock reqd to run just-in-time manufacturing with 24hr customs delays
6/10 "as of today nobody knows": JLR. "No I'm not" BMW's Robertson when asked what trading and legal environment will be in 18 month's time
7/10 Industry: told by Govt UK car will accept EU car rules & standards. Eg JLR's Gross: "no noises from UK Govt they expect any different"
8/10 annoyance that Govt overclaims car investments as Brexit strategy endorsement, minister refused permission to conduct interviews onsite
9/10 BMW boss "cant q understand" proposal customs outsourced to industry through expansion of "AEO" scheme as suggested in Customs paper
10/10 also denies that it will be lobbying Merkel to give UK a special deal: "we aren't likely to be lobbying in any particular direction"
FULL story from our first #brexitforensics piece on car industry concerns news.sky.com/story/governme…
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