(a) 2017 and 2018 were also post-brexit-referendum years with investments getting pulled left and right (b) The £1bn will be spread over many years, almost non

(a) 2017 and 2018 were also post-brexit-referendum years with investments getting pulled left and right (b) The £1bn will be spread over many years, almost none of it this year. (c) Low global car demand leads to reduced investment. The investments that get cut first are the ones where labour is already expensive, skilled labour is about to get much harder to get and supply chains are about to be screwed up massively. Guess where that is.