Brexit isn’t done: what next for the UK’s aerospace and defence industries?

Defence is intertwined with manufacturing, which means EU withdrawal could create significant upheaval.

Pigs may not be able to fly, but whales can. The Airbus Beluga is a specially modified plane, designed to transport aircraft wings from Wales to the continent.

“The Beluga is one of the great sights of the skies in Chester,” says Chris Matheson MP, whose constituency sits just across the border from Airbus’s Broughton plant in Wales. “It marks the success of the supply chain flying between Hamburg, Toulouse and Chester.”