Brexit has wrecked Britain’s car industry, but so have the Tories

New Toyota cars are transported from their manufacturing facility in Burnaston. The plant’s boss says an assessment will be made at the end of the year about its future. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

There is no hope for Britain’s car industry … or at least no hope of maintaining the scale and productive capacity that this bedrock of the UK manufacturing sector could boast before the Covid-19 pandemic.

It’s downhill from here.