‘I’m not profiting from misery. I’m averting more’ – Thales’s UK boss on making missiles for Ukraine
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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:00:16 +0200

Whether manufacturing drones or printing British blue passports, the defence contractor is flying high in a geopolitically risky climateFor a ferocious remainer, Alex Cresswell is remarkably proud of his blue passport.
For some, the dark rectangle on his office table is a sad symbol of Britains departure from the EU.
But while the Thales UK boss describes watching the Brexit squabbles in Westminster from his decadelong posting at the companys Paris HQ as excruciating, he smiles at the travel document.His aerospacetodefenceandsecurity business is four years into a Home Office contract to produce the passports, after Gemalto acquired by Thales undercut the furious incumbent, De La Rue, to win the contract.
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