Is anyone listening to the Brexit warnings from business?

Inside Business: Vauxhall closures should sound the alarm – but it may be too late to stop Johnson's runaway train causing catastrophe

James Moore
Chief Business Commentator
Monday 29 July 2019 20:28 BST
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Home of the Astra no longer? Vauxhall's owner has an alternative in mind if no-deal Brexit bites
Home of the Astra no longer? Vauxhall's owner has an alternative in mind if no-deal Brexit bites

Who’s going to be the first to tell Vauxhall’s 1,000 workers at Ellesmere Port that if they’d just be willing to show a bit more cheery optimism and believe hard enough, the threat of Brexit closure now hanging over their workplace will be magically lifted?

Certainly not Boris Johnson, who’s been trading in that sort of stuff to excitable reviews from certain parts of the media, which is delighting in the show put on by the PT Barnum of British politics and doesn’t much care about the consequences so long as the entertainment continues.

The no-deal PM was in Scotland amid the furore created by the Financial Times publishing an interview with the boss of Vauxhall’s owner PSA, Carlos Tavares, in which he said the company had an alternative lined up to produce the Astra if the no-deal Brexit hammer comes down and makes the Cheshire plant unprofitable.

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