Brexit will make foreign manufacturers in the UK take flight

Big firms will have to stay put for now, but future investment and research will go elsewhere BMW is unlikely to shut its Mini factory in Oxford next year no matter how disastrously the government's Brexit negotiations conclude. Likewise, Nissan owner Renault won't walk away from its base in the north-east - where it has built Britain's single largest car factory - the day after the UK leaves the EU, even if departure means losing access to the frictionless trade area, otherwise known as the cus...