{"id":16442,"date":"2018-10-02T16:27:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=16442"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:11","slug":"toyota-brexit-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=16442","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Brexit warning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unite called on Tory ministers to put the livelihoods of the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s car workers and manufacturers ahead of \u00e2\u20ac\u015bself-interested political ambition\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 after warnings from Toyota today (October 2) that a \u00e2\u20ac\u015bbad Brexit\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 deal would impact on investment decisions.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to the BBC at the Paris motor show Toyota European chief Johan van Zyl warned that an inability to sell into the EU market duty free would harm its UK operations and impact on investment decisions.<\/p>\n

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Speaking about no deal Brexit scenario he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf we have anything that has an impact on your competitiveness of manufacturing in the UK, it will definitely have an impact on future investment decisions.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe reason for many manufacturers being in the UK is the fact that they could export to the European market duty free – and that is a critical one.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Other carmakers, including Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan, have raised the alarm about the damage a hard Brexit could do to the UK automotive sector.<\/p>\n

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Honda has warned that a hard Brexit could cost the firm ten of millions of pounds, while BMW has brought forward a shut down at its Oxford Mini factory to March to minimise potential fallout from a hard Brexit, with chief executive Harald Krueger saying the firm was getting ready for a \u00e2\u20ac\u015bperiod of flexibility\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n

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Commenting on latest warning, Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bHow loud do the alarm bells need to ring before the penny drops with Theresa May and her shambolic government that a hard Brexit or a no deal Brexit will harm investment and damage the UK car industry?<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhile ministers race for pole position with the Tory faithful on who will succeed Theresa May, the country is hurtling towards a cliff edge Brexit. Tory ministers need to stop gambling with people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jobs and put the livelihoods of the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s car workers and those in the supply chain ahead of their own self-interested political ambitions.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Burke added, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe need a Brexit deal that protects jobs and secures tariff free access and the frictionless trade which our car industry needs to go from strength to strength.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unite called on Tory ministers to put the livelihoods of the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s car workers and manufacturers ahead of \u00e2\u20ac\u015bself-interested political ambition\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 after warnings from Toyota today (October 2) that a \u00e2\u20ac\u015bbad Brexit\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 deal would impact on investment decisions.   Speaking to the BBC at the Paris motor show Toyota European chief Johan van Zyl warned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[230,1021],"wps_subtitle":"Toyota warns that \u00e2\u20ac\u0098bad Brexit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 deal would impact investment","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25814,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442\/revisions\/25814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}