My thoughts in Conservative Home of Nissan car manufacturing at Washington in the north-east England:
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Tomorrow marks 30 years since the official opening of the Nissan car plant at Washington (near Sunderland) by Margaret Thatcher. You’d be hard-pressed to find too many dissenting voices over the factory’s subsequent track-record: 7,000 employed directly, 25,000 in the supply-chain plus knock-on benefits across the north-east. Churning out half a million units annually, over three-quarters are exported, some even to Japan. And all this without a single day lost to industrial action.
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