Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, commenting on reports that Vauxhall is planning to cut 400 jobs in Ellesmere Port, said:

“After the Government pledged to do everything it could to protect Vauxhall workers when PSA took over the company earlier this year, we are now seeing potential job losses.

“The Government’s lack of a bold and consistent industrial strategy is holding Britain back. The Government cannot simply offer secretive bespoke deals to some car manufacturers and not others.

“The Government urgently needs to support the plant, provide Brexit certainty to the sector and attract the investment it urgently needs.”