Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed plans to cut around 4,000 jobs globally over the next two years, as Britain's largest carmaker seeks to save £1.7bn amid tough trading conditions, Donald Trump's tariffs and the fallout from last year's damaging cyber-attack. The Tata-owned firm employs 44,000 people worldwide, including 34,000 in the UK, and the announcement has been described by MPs as a "body blow" for workers in the West Midlands, posing an early test for the government's efforts to "reindustrialise" Britain.

The cuts will fall mainly on salaried and management staff among JLR's 26,000 UK office-based employees, in areas such as management, marketing and research and development, while hourly-paid shopfloor workers are expected to be largely unaffected. Chief executive PB Balaji said the move was part of a "Growth Reimagined" strategy to strengthen competitiveness, while the business minister Jonathan Reynolds has ruled out government financial support to avert the redundancies. Unite's Sharon Graham said she would push for retraining and redeployment over compulsory layoffs when ministers meet company bosses on Tuesday; last year's cyber-attack alone is estimated to have cost JLR about £200m.