Britain's electric car battery future hanging by a thread

 The Guardian has reported: 

Construction of a huge electric car battery factory that has attracted tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer cash and been hailed as a flagship project of Boris Johnson’s levelling up policy has been put on “life support” to cut spending, leaked internal documents suggest.

This would not be the first time that Tory hype has run far ahead of reality. Remember the promise?

the Prime Minister said the new battery factory will “boost the production of electric vehicles in the UK, whilst levelling up opportunity and bringing thousands of new highly-skilled jobs to communities in our industrial heartlands.”