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Another way to look at it is that it appears that the Swindon plant has not been viable for a while but the looming loss of tariff free exports to their largest and wealthiest market was the final straw.
Ask yourself this, if there was no EU/Japan FTA, where would they be moving production to after Brexit? Probably Belgium where their distribution centres are. Because there is an FTA, they can choose Japan instead. If there was no Brexit on the horizon, they would be able to consider continuing to make Swindon work.
In the same way that FlyBMI probably would have folded anyway, but Brexit pushed it over the edge in the end.