Howard-
Jenkins did say this:
At Toyota in her own constituency—I met Toyota last week—quite a substantial proportion of its componentry arrives from outside the European Union to be bolted on to its cars. She is putting up these completely false fears that just-in-time supply chains are threatened by trading across customs frontiers.
I can't see anything refering to customs delays that he said in Hansard, though I'm absolutely not an expert, and could possibly even be searching in the wrong debate (or whatever they call it).
If that is the relevant part, I highly doubt that putting up customs barriers and delays will aid in JIT delivery, and he's probably dismissed the idea that it will make no difference too quickly.
But then, I'm no manufacturing expert; in the same debate Jenkins claims to be as he worked for some financial part of Ford via a venture capital firm in 1989 for three years - was JIT even implemented in the UK back then?
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quite a substantial proportion of its componentry arrives from outside the European Union to be bolted on to its cars
FFS - he'd be changing that 'substantial part' to '100%'. Even as a non expert, if he thinks that's insubstantial to their manufacturing processes, then he's either a liar or a cretin.
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christianSpaceman
That reads like a John Crace piece. I wonder if he really said several days or if that's a bit of colour on the part of the sketch writer.
Like, is he really expecting new customs checks to take several days longer than the current ones.