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The first ministers of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have joined forces to press the case for the UK Government to provide emergency support to the aerospace industry, which has been badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a joint letter to UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, the first ministers called for the creation of an aerospace taskforce to show that “all our governments remain committed to working together in order to preserve this sector that is hugely important to the whole of the UK”.
Trade unions have suggested tens of thousands of jobs could be lost as a result of the pandemic and a downturn in air travel, with a combined 2,000+ jobs under threat in Wales at British Airways Maintainance at Rhoose, GE Aviation at Nantgarw and the Airbus wing factory at Broughton.
