{"id":6681,"date":"2019-01-24T17:45:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/brexit-jaguar-land-rover-extends-shutdown-over-no-deal-fears\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:45:13","slug":"brexit-jaguar-land-rover-extends-shutdown-over-no-deal-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/brexit-jaguar-land-rover-extends-shutdown-over-no-deal-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: Jaguar Land Rover extends shutdown over no-deal fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jaguar Land Rover is to extend its annual April shutdown in car production because of uncertainties around Brexit.<\/p>\n

The UK’s biggest carmaker will be idle for an extra week because of fears of disruption at its car and engine plants at Liverpool, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.<\/p>\n

The shutdown during 8 to 12 April will be in addition to a scheduled closure the following week.<\/p>\n

Britain is due to leave the European Union on 29 March.<\/p>\n

“There will be an additional week of production stand-down… due to potential Brexit disruption,” JLR said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The company, which is cutting jobs because of a steep fall in sales, has previously warned about the impact of Brexit on its ability to source just-in-time components from mainland Europe.<\/p>\n

BMW is already planning to close its plant near Oxford for a month after Brexit, while Honda is planning a six-day closure.<\/p>\n

After Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan was defeated in Parliament last week, fears have grown among some businesses of a no-deal exit.<\/p>\n

Also on Thursday, Airbus, which makes aircraft wings in the UK, warned it could shift manufacturing from the UK in the event of no deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n