Vehicles on the production line at the Stellantis Vauxhall Ellesmere Port.
Stellantis, one of the world’s biggest car makers, has asked the UK government to renegotiate part of the Brexit deal with Brussels or risk losing parts of its car industry and suffer “significant job losses”.
The firm, which makes Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, had committed to making electric vehicles in the UK – but has now warned ministers it can no longer meet Brexit trade rules on where parts are sourced.
Stellantis makes electric vans at its Ellesmere Port factory in Cheshire, and the warning to government will raise questions over its future.
The revelation – first reported by the BBC and contained within a submission to a Commons inquiry into electric car production (read in full here) – comes hours after Nigel Farage admitted “Brexit has failed”.
NEW / EXCL – breaking on #bbcnewsten and News online … Vauxhall owner Stellantis tells Government to renegotiate Brexit deal signed by Boris Johnson as it confirms for first time its UK electric car exports will not qualify for TCA from January as wont meet origin requirements.
The rules state that 45 per cent of the value of an electric vehicle must come from the UK or EU from 2024 to avoid penalties.
The carmaker urged the government to reach an agreement with the European Union about keeping the current rules until 2027, or else “trade between the UK and EU would be subject to 10% tariffs”.
Stellantis said its UK investments were based on meeting the strict terms of the post-Brexit free trade deal.
The Stellantis submission says that uncompetitive electric vehicle costs will mean “manufacturers will not continue to invest” and will “relocate manufacturing operations outside of the UK”.
In a stark line from the submission, the company said: “If the cost of EV manufacturing in the UK becomes uncompetitive and unsustainable, operations will close.”
It adds: “The closing of UK manufacturing will see significant job losses, the loss of a skilled workforce and a negative impact to the UK economy.”
Extract from the submission to the Commons inquiry into electric car production.
Stellantis chief executive Carlos Tavares said earlier in the year that Britain’s car industry would be “in trouble” without UK-made batteries.
Meanwhile, the former UKIP leader said the Conservatives had failed to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the 2016 referendum result.
Farage said he “doesn’t think that for a minute” that the UK would have been better off staying in, but insisted the Tories had been worse than the European Commission at running the economy.
He said: “What I do think is that we haven’t actually benefited economically from Brexit.
″What Brexit’s proved, I’m afraid is that our politicians are about as useless as the commissioners in Brussels were.
“We’ve mismanaged this totally, and if you look at simple things such as takeovers, such as corporation tax, we are driving business away from our country.
″Arguably, now we’re back in control, we’re regulating our own businesses even more than they were as EU members. Brexit has failed.”
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<p>In a <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A910/354296/20250328154415498_USDOE%20v.%20California%20-%20Opposition%20to%20Application.pdf">40-page filing</a>, the states told the justices that there was no reason for them to intervene. “Because the district court acted responsibly — entering a narrow and time-limited restraining order to preserve the status quo while moving rapidly to adjudicate” the state’s request for a preliminary injunction, the government cannot appeal the district court’s order, the states argue, and the government’s appeal will in any event be moot (that is, no longer a live controversy) by early April.<span id="more-319374"></span></p>
<p>At issue in the case are two grant programs for teacher recruitment, training, and professional development. The Department of Education canceled nearly all of the grants under the program – 104 out of 109 – in early February, after reviews found “objectionable” material relating to DEI in them.</p>
<p>The states – California, along with Massachusetts, New Jersey, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New York, and Wisconsin – challenged the termination of the grants in federal court in Massachusetts. They contended that universities and nonprofits in their states had received grants through the programs, and that the cancellation of the grants had violated the federal law governing administrative agencies.</p>
<p>U.S. District Judge Myong Joun issued a temporary order on March 10 instructing the department to restore the grants that it had cancelled in the eight states bringing the lawsuit, and he prohibited the department from carrying out other terminations in those states.</p>
<p>A federal appeals court in Boston rejected the department’s request to pause Joun’s order while it appealed, prompting Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris to go to the Supreme Court on Wednesday.</p>
<p>In their filing on Friday, the states push back against the federal government’s suggestion that if Joun’s order is not paused, it will create an incentive for groups to quickly draw down the funds, and the government will not be able to recover them even if the order is later reversed. “But the order has been in place for 18 days,” the state observed, “and ‘the Department has not pointed to any evidence of any attempt at any such withdrawal by any recipient’ — ‘or rebutted the contention that it could stop such an attempted withdrawal’ or recover the funds.”</p>
<p>The states also suggest that, because the stakes in this case are relatively low, the federal government’s “real concern” is with the other cases around the country “where courts are grappling with a raft of legal disputes arising out of recent actions by the Executive Branch. Those concerns,” the states concluded, “are properly litigated in the context of those other cases.”</p>
<p><em>This article was <a href="https://amylhowe.com/2025/03/28/states-call-on-justices-to-leave-restored-teacher-training-funds-in-place/">originally published at Howe on the Court</a>. </em></p>
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Vehicles on the production line at the Stellantis Vauxhall Ellesmere Port.
Extract from the submission to the Commons inquiry into electric car production.
