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       The UK has won a major Brexit victory as the owner of Jaguar Land Rover is set to announce the opening of a multi-billion pound factory in Britain.

       The electric car battery plant will be located in Somerset and is expected to create 9,000 jobs.

       It is expected to be officially announced tomorrow, according to the BBC.

       But the news has been hailed as a major success for Britain and could only have been achieved because of leaving the EU according to senior Conservative MPs.

       Britain was battling it out with Spain to host the plant, which has been described as the most significant investment in the UK automotive industry since the 1980s.

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       JLR owners Tatar are set to announce a new UK factory (Image: GETTY)

       Former Brexit Opportunities Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg insisted that the deal would not have happened if Britain had remained locked in the EU.

       He told Express.co.uk: "This was only able to happen because we are free to help JLR without being bound by the EU’s state aid rules."

       Dudley North Tory MP Marco Longhi, a trade envoy, pointed out that the deal comes on the heals of the UK signing up to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) with 11 other countries and a combined GDP of ￡12 trillion.

       He said: "Brexit Britain is beginning to deliver. The transition out of the EU was always going to be sluggish and bumpy, but neither did we think that the EU would be as difficult as it has been.

       “This investment has only been possible because of Brexit. Yes, there are state subsidies, and these could not have been possible when part of the EU.

       "CPTPP membership, many other trade deals and now this investment are all just the beginning of a Brexit Britain going global."

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       Jacob Rees-Mogg has hailed the investment as a Brexit success (Image: Getty)

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       Bassetlaw MP Brendan Clarke-Smith, chairman of the Blue Collar Conservatism group, claimed that the announcement will again prove the Remainers wrong.

       He said: "This is fantastic news and a hugely significant investment in the U.K. automotive industry. It just goes to show that whilst the gloom and doom mongers constantly talk this country down, the rest of the world see Brexit Britain as a great place to do business and invest.”

       tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson added: "Slippery Starmer and loony left will use any excuse talk Britain down. If Labour had their way they would drag us kicking and screaming back into the EU.

       "But in spite of that, another big global business has made a vote of confidence in the UK, providing new jobs and investment.

       "These naysayers should have pride and faith in our country. I certainly do."

       Former Brexit Minister David Jones said: "This is superb news for the UK motor industry. It’s a vote of confidence in Brexit Britain, with its global free trade deals and membership of the Trans Pacific Partnership, and it confounds the doomsters who told us before the referendum that there would be no British motor industry left if we voted to leave."

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