Jaguar Land Rover boss says car plants in UK are not under threat

Comments come as carmaker talks with Spain and UK governments over where to build new car battery gigafactory

The chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover has said the future of the carmaker’s UK factories will not come under threat even if it has to source electric car batteries from Europe.

The comments came amid closely watched negotiations between JLR’s owner, the Indian conglomerate Tata, and the governments of the UK and Spain over where to build a “gigafactory” capable of manufacturing hundreds of thousands car batteries a year.