Reaction to ongoing UK-EU trade talks

Sunday 13 December, 2020

Mike Hawes. SMMT Chief Executive: 

We welcome the commitment from both sides to continue talking and find a way through the political impasse – we now need negotiators to finish the job and agree the deal we all so desperately need, without further delay. ‘No deal’ would be nothing less than catastrophic for the automotive sector, its workers and their families and represent a stunning failure of statecraft. Quite simply, it has to be ruled out.