{"id":6663,"date":"2019-01-24T08:26:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T08:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/airbus-warns-of-brexit-harmful-decisions\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T08:26:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T08:26:17","slug":"airbus-warns-of-brexit-harmful-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/airbus-warns-of-brexit-harmful-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus warns of Brexit &#8216;harmful decisions&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Airbus A380 wing and tail\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/888B\/production\/_102155943_gettyimages-698366346.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Airbus makes wings for the A380 and other models in the UK<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">European planemaker Airbus has warned that it could move wing-building out of the UK in the future if there is a no-deal Brexit. <\/p>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s chief executive, Tom Enders, said the firm &#8220;will have to make potentially very harmful decisions for the UK&#8221; in the event of no deal.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Enders said it was a &#8220;disgrace&#8221; that businesses could still not plan for Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Airbus employs 14,000 people in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>That includes 6,000 jobs at its main wings factory at Broughton in Wales, as well as 3,000 at Filton, near Bristol, where wings are designed and supported.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-43470987\" class=\"story-body__link\">Brexit: Jargon-busting guide to the key terms<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-politics-46978952\/brexit-what-does-no-deal-mean\" class=\"story-body__link\">Brexit: What does no deal mean?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr Enders said: &#8220;Please don&#8217;t listen to the Brexiteers&#8217; madness which asserts that, because we have huge plants here, we will not move and we will always be here. They are wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that while the world&#8217;s second-largest aerospace group could not &#8220;pick up and move our large UK factories to other parts of the world immediately&#8221;, Airbus could be &#8220;forced to redirect future investments in the event of a no-deal Brexit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And make no mistake, there are plenty of countries out there who would love to build the wings for Airbus aircraft,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brexit is threatening to destroy a century of development based on education, research and human capital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MPs are putting forward alternative plans to Theresa May&#8217;s Brexit plan after it was voted down by Parliament last week.<\/p>\n<p>The UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March this year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46984229\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Airbus makes wings for the A380 and other models in the UK European planemaker Airbus has warned that it could move wing-building out of the UK in the future if there is a no-deal Brexit. 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