Tory blunder as car giant puts staff on 3-day week
A TOP Tory was branded an “embarrassment” by his own party after car giant Jaguar Land Rover yesterday announced plans for a three-day week.
Sir Bernard Jenkin had earlier accused the company of “making up” dire warnings over Brexit.
The firm’s boss Dr Ralf Speth had warned a hard Brexit could be “horrifying” and cost his firm more than £1.2billion a year.
And hours after Sir Bernard’s attack the firm said 3,000 staff will move to a three-day week.
Fellow Tory MP Anna Soubry called Sir Bernard “embarrassing” as she backed “honest” business and trade union chiefs telling of “the disaster of a no-deal Brexit”. Jaguar Land Rover said its production cut followed “continuing headwinds” in the Brexit run-up. It said it was making “temporary adjustments” at its Castle Bromwich site in Birmingham. The area’s Labour MP, Jack Dromey, blamed the three-day week until Christmas on “Brexit chaos” and the “mishandling by ministers of the transition from diesel”. Unite’s Tony Burke said Brexiteer Jenkins’ comments “are irresponsible and misinformed and are entering into the world of fantasy economics”.