Drive Jags, Ministers Told

MINISTERS have been urged to get out of their Japanese Toyotas and climb into Birmingham-built Jaguar cars instead.

Labour’s Ian Austin, MP for Dudley North, told the Commons this would support British business and be good for the environment.

Mr Austin, parliamentary private secretary to Chancellor Gordon Brown, asked transport secretary Douglas Alexander why his department “required government ministers to drive around in Japanese-built Toyota Prius models”.

“They have two engines and a wasteful manufacturing process and have to be shipped half way around the world on boats that are pumping out emissions,” he said.

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