Prime Minister Rishi Sunak claims the UK economy is getting "on the right track" as he visits the site of the former Honda car factory. The Japanese car giant's plant in Swindon closed in 2021 with the loss of thousands of jobs and the site was sold to developer Panattoni to turn into a logistics hub. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 How long? Longer than that?
00:01 Oh wow, okay, so you've only just started and you basically have got years on the line.
00:05 Yeah, and then some of you guys have been here for a longer time by the look of it.
00:08 Yeah, Richard, come on, you've been here a while, haven't you?
00:11 I built this.
00:12 The original?
00:13 The original, yeah.
00:14 Actually, was it Justin? Was it your thing? Someone in Justin's office actually
00:18 used to work on the old plant. It must be quite emotional for you then.
00:21 Oh, yeah.
00:22 Yeah, and the rest of you are all basically a mix of engineers and all of the site?
00:26 Engineers, site managers, QSs.
00:29 Okay, this is a great, exciting job to work on.
00:32 Yeah, really exciting. You've got all these incredible people to learn from.
00:35 I think that's a huge vote of confidence in the UK and it shows that the work we're doing
00:40 to get the economy on the right track is paying off. Now, I'm determined as Prime Minister to
00:45 make sure that the UK is the best place in the world to invest and grow a business like this
00:51 and that's why we've been taking ambitious steps like making full expensing permanent,
00:56 which is the biggest business tax cut in modern British history, and it's all about supporting
01:01 businesses like this to invest in local areas and create jobs and opportunity for the future,
01:07 and ultimately, so we can all enjoy more incredible occasions like this.
01:12 So, thank you to you for what you do. I'm enormously proud of what you're doing in the
01:17 country and particularly in the local area, and I'm sure everyone involved with this project
01:21 is incredibly proud too. So, congratulations to you all and here's to another 25 million square feet.
01:27 Thank you very much.