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The boss of Bentley Motors has warned that the added cost of a hard Brexit would slice a quarter off the car maker s profits worldwide - and admitted that a last-minute deal with the EU was at the top of his Christmas wishlist.
Speaking the week before Christmas, chairman and CEO Adrian Hallmark said: I sincerely hope some kind of common ground can be found in these last days of negotiations with the EU to find a credible trade deal. While a hard Brexit would not kill us, it would dent our profitability and make us less competitive. It would slow us down with component supply. But we are prepared as we can be.