Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch has defended the investment of taxpayer money to secure Oxford as the site for the manufacture of BMW’s next-generation electric Mini.

She said: “We’ve been helping a whole swathe of companies, not just BMW Mini, but this is what we need to do to in order to make sure that our auto industry survives and actually thrives as well.” Report by Buseld. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn