Hello, good afternoon, my name is Ian
Jackson. I am an economist in the
business school.  Recently I've had the
opportunity to speak with a journalist
from Bloomberg  - Therese Raphael, who is a business editor and they cover lots of
things relating to economics and
politics and society.  This particular
occasion was to do with brexit
in particular Nigel Farage, and his recent
visit to Wolverhampton, which obviously
caused quite a bit of a stir, both
politically and in terms of business.
What I was asked to do, is talk
specifically about the local economy
which is the sorts of things we cover in
our courses here in the business school
looking at things like supply chains and
how that would affect Jaguar Land Rover
and JCB within the West Midlands economy
but also further afield to places like
Airbus in North Wales or rolls-royce
engines in Derby and just looking at the
implications of the EU withdrawal by the
UK has been currently proposed in
October 2019. Those are sorts of
things as lecturers in economics that we
get involved with here at the University
of Wolverhampton Business School and
that links of course directly to the
classes that we teach and the courses that we operate.
