TRADE minister Digby Jones may be an opponent of trade unions, the minimum wage, taxing non-doms and the Labour Party, but he is sticking up for British cars. Lord Jones is refusing to part with his official Jaguar, built in Merseyside, despite plans to replace all ministerial vehicles with petrol-electric hybrid cars like the Japanese-made Toyota Prius. If only the Government Car and Despatch Agency, which provides the wheels, shared his pride. Its annual report is showered in pictures of environmentally-friendly Priuses, but there’s only one – tiny – picture of a Jag..
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