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The British car industry has just issued one of its strongest warnings in years. Not about Chinese competition. Not about Donald Trump’s tariffs. Not even about electric cars themselves. This is about Government policy.
As recent election results indicate that the UK’s Labour party is likely to win the net general election, it’s worth taking time to examine their plan for cars, motorists and the automotive industry. We look at Shadow Transport Secretary, Louise Haigh’s plan for cars, and deep dive in Labour’s Plan for the Automotive Sector, and the foreward by Jonathan Reynolds, Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Industrial Strategy
The British car industry is under threat from multiple directions, but it’s worth around £77bn to the UK economy. We need the Government to step in and act fast to save what was once the second biggest car industry in the world and the biggest exporter of cars to the globe in the 1950s.