Vauxhall to close huge factory in Britain – putting over 1,000 jobs at risk

A MAJOR British car shaper has announced it volition adjacent its mill successful Luton, putting astir 1,100 jobs astatine risk.

Stellantis, the proprietor of Vauxhall, person said it volition determination its electrical van accumulation astatine its different UK works successful Ellesmere Port, adjacent Chester.

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

Stellantis person agelong been astatine loggerheads with the UK government's electrification rules.

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

In June, 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.