Jaguar Land Rover: How EU rules left Slovakia free to entice car maker from UK with £110m state aid sweetener!
Ever since the 2016 EU referendum, Jaguar Land Rover has been issuing grim warnings about job losses in the event of a hard Brexit. On Thursday morning, as it announced it was cutting its UK workforce by 4,500, it claimed “continuing uncertainty related to Brexit” was at least partly to blame.
Yet JLR’s decision over the past three years to move production of its Land Rover Discovery model from Solihull to Slovakia, creating 2,350 jobs in eastern Europe rather than in the UK, received little scrutiny.
As Remain-supporting ministers and the BBC warned of the dangers of Brexit to the car industry, Eurosceptic MPs cited JLR as a case study in why Britain needs to leave the EU, rather than maintaining...
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