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Cheap electric cars could be the latest Brexit benefit

13 September 2024

10:30 PM

13 September 2024

10:30 PM

If Starmer were to rejoin the EU tomorrow, arch-Remainer Gavin Esler tweeted the other day, what benefits of Brexit would you miss most? I’ve got one for him: affordable cars.

Britain, even under a more EU-friendly Labour government, has declined to copy the EU – as well as the US – in imposing punitive tariffs on imports of Chinese-made electric cars.

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