Jaguar Land Rover’s Chief Executive Officer, David Smith, has urged immediate action by the Government to deliver the aid package promised to the UK’s automotive industry if serious industrial consequences are to be averted. Addressing an audience that included the Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, at the CBI’s Manufacturing Dinner in Birmingham, Mr Smith welcomed the [...]

Thank you, Lord Mandelson, for joining us tonight and for the effort you have made in recent weeks, championing within Government the cause of the car industry and the manufacturing sector as a whole. But for all your good works, I know you know already, that we are not out of the woods yet. So [...]