CYBER ATTACKS
Tata for nothing
IT CAN only be hoped that when he met Tata of India’s chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran
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on his trip to Delhi last week, prime minister Keir Starmer had some words about the company sharpening up its act. It is certainly testing the limits of British taxpayers’ indulgence.
Last week came the £1.5bn loan guarantee provided by UK Export Finance to Jaguar Land Rover after it was paralysed by a cyber attack that business secretary Peter Kyle called “an assault on an iconic British brand”. Indeed it was; but the company has been owned by Tata Motors since 2008. And given the state of the motor industry and the US tariffs hanging over JLR, this is no small risk for the taxpayer.