Voices in the media have clamoured that we should buy British first, foreign if need be.
I agree, but if we want to start putting work into British hands - and we are certainly going to need to during our long and coming recovery, we could start with cars.
Motor the streets of Europe and look at the badges of the passing cars. In Germany 90 per cent are German, in France 85 per cent French. Here under 50 per cent are British.
Yet our foreign car import bill costs us many billions. We make excellent cars here and could start our economic recovery by ensuring that only very special cars are Europe-made.