Vauxhall confirms it will shut huge UK factory in just MONTHS with 1,100 jobs at risk

VAUXHALL is closing 1 of its biggest UK factories, putting 1,000 jobs astatine risk.

The determination has been slammed by furious MPs who accidental the closure of the 120-year-old hub is acceptable to "massively interaction the full town".

The Luton mill volition adjacent successful April 2025.

The plans were archetypal announced successful November 2024 and the institution blamed the UK's power to electrical vehicles and the ZEV Mandate.

After the closure successful Luton, the machinery volition beryllium transported to Ellesmere Port successful Cheshire, wherever electrical vans are already being produced.

Vauxhall proprietor Stellantis, the second-biggest shaper of cars successful Europe, has said it volition put £50million successful Ellesmere.

The determination comes months aft the multi-national firm, which besides owns the likes of Citroen, Fiat, Jeep, Peugeot and Maserati, warned it whitethorn halt accumulation successful the UK.

The ZEV Mandate, which are the strict caller rules that purpose to bounds the income of caller petrol and diesel vehicles successful the UK up of a 2035 ban, person been critised by the car elephantine for its projected penalties connected car-manufacturing.

Luton Council has deed retired against the decision, claiming they offered "numerous options to prevention the works but they were rejected" by Stellantis.

Hazel Simmons, Labour person of Luton Council, said: "Vauxhall has been an integral portion of Luton’s practice for decades.

"We did what we could to effort and halt this closure going up and I consciousness aggravated that this determination volition massively interaction the lives of truthful galore people.

"This is quality the workers and their families would person been dreading to perceive and we privation them to cognize we are down them and volition enactment them each we can.

"It’s not conscionable them who are affected. This volition interaction the full town. With occupation losses astatine the works arsenic good arsenic the wider proviso chain, it volition person a immense interaction connected the section economy, but we volition retrieve from this."

Business and commercialized caput Jonathan Reynolds said: "This quality volition beryllium profoundly concerning for the employees astatine Luton who volition beryllium affected and their families.

"We person a longstanding concern with Stellantis and person engaged with them extensively passim this process, including discussions implicit the past week and today.

"We volition proceed to enactment intimately with them, the commercialized unions and Luton assembly to enactment successful spot measures to enactment the section community."

In June past year, the company's erstwhile UK boss, Maria Grazia Davino, said: “Stellantis UK does not stop, but Stellantis accumulation successful the UK could stop”.

Then, successful an update successful October, brag Carlos Tavares further urged ministers to unbend the rules astir EV production.

Tavares called connected the authorities to "help to stimulate the demand" for EVs and cemented that the existent threshold for greenish income is astir treble the "natural" levels of demand.