The timing isn't just to do with the Farnborough Air Show. When you have MPs launching the project rather than the partners announcing they have backing then you can see where the impetus is coming from. BAE have always got a next generation plane/boat/tank/missile on the drawing board. There is just a hand-wavy pledge by government to spend on the development, they have not ordered any planes or coughed up hard cash.
Post Brexit Airbus could pack up and leave the UK. Interestingly the Broughton factory in Wales used to be in England but the Conservatives arranged for the border to be re-drawn enabling Airbus to get an EU regional development grant for their factory.
Post Brexit Airbus could pack up and leave the UK. Interestingly the Broughton factory in Wales used to be in England but the Conservatives arranged for the border to be re-drawn enabling Airbus to get an EU regional development grant for their factory.