In conversation with Mike Hawes, chief executive of the SMMT

Posted on 28 Oct 2019 by Jonny Williamson

Mike Hawes sits down with Nick Peters to outline the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders' deep concerns at the UK automotive sector's possible fate, and the myriad of other challenges it faces.

 In the last few days of September, just as the UK became embroiled in a constitutional crisis over Brexit, industry bodies representing national automotive industries all over the EU issued a statement that insisted the security of their industry rests on the UK reaching a Brexit deal with the EU. Alarmingly, the government maintains that…

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