A spokesperson for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the decision is up to the Metropolitan Police, “who obviously also take in wider security considerations,” but added that the country’s leader would “always promote and champion British companies.”
Johnson himself is stepping down, with a replacement due to be chosen this week, and thus wouldn’t be in office when any change happens.
“We need to see a British prime minister in a British car,” Gary Sambrook, a member of Parliament, told The Telegraph. “No other country would overlook their own automotive sector like this.”