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The owner of Vauxhall has warned of “dramatic consequences” for its UK plants if there is a no-deal Brexit.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the BBC, Carlos Tavares said the carmaker’s “number one” request of Brexit talks was free trade.<\/p>\n

Mr Tavares is chief executive of PSA, which bought Vauxhall and Opel last year<\/a> and has operations in Ellesmere Port and Luton.<\/p>\n

He said: “If we don’t have free trade conditions then of course we will have to adapt”.<\/p>\n

“That may have dramatic consequences for our operations in the UK, which of course we would like to avoid as much as possible. <\/p>\n

“So for us the situation is crystal clear, we need free trade. That’s the number one request,” he said in an interview at the Paris Motor Show.<\/p>\n

The PSA Group – which also owns Peugeot and Citroen – employs 3,000 people in the UK, including 1,225 at the Luton plant and 1,100 at Ellesmere Port.<\/p>\n