No-deal Brexit would hit 'red wall' areas hard, manufacturers warn

Lobby group says former Labour seats have most to lose from collapse of talks

Britain’s manufacturers have warned Boris Johnson that former “red wall” seats won by the Tories in last year’s election would be at most risk of severe economic damage from Brexit talks collapsing.

Sounding the alarm with less than six months before the end of the Brexit transition period, the manufacturing lobby group Make UK and the accountancy firm BDO said industrial areas in the north of England, the Midlands and Wales could face a “triple whammy” should a deal with the EU fail to emerge.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3exowTt

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