Ford Bridgend: What's behind the closure of a factory? – BBC Newsnight



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The Ford engine plant located in South Wales is expected to close in the fall of 2020, resulting in the loss of 1,700 jobs.
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According to Ford, the operation is "economically unsustainable", insisting that this would have occurred regardless of Brexit.

Our chief economist, Ben Chu, reports Bridgend.

Richard Harrington, former minister of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Adam Price, leader of Plaid Cymru, and Kate Andrews, associate director of the Institute's free market think tank economic affairs, join Kirsty in the studio.

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