A prominent Birmingham MP has accused Goodyear Dunlop of treating the city with contempt after 241 job losses were confirmed.

The Post revealed today that the Dunlop Motorsport jobs were being shifted from Castle Bromwich to France and Germany, meaning an end to decades of production in the city.

While Goodyear Dunlop still employs a further 700 people in the West Midlands, MP Jack Dromey (Lab Erdington) said the company had acted in an “outrageous and irresponsible” manner.

The MP had campaigned alongside the Post to keep production in the city – including bringing Business Secretary Vince Cable in for a summit – but to no avail.

“Goodyear Dunlop is guilty of treating Birmingham and Britain with contempt,” Mr Dromey told the Post.

“Four days after they told Vince Cable they would seriously examine all options for remaining in Birmingham, that have announced out of the blue a closure that will end 125 years of manufacturing hstory.

“We will not allow a decision to be made 3,600 miles away in Ohio to put 300 highly-skilled Birmingham workers on the scrapheap.

“In more than 30 years of experience in the world of work, I cannot remember such outrageous and irresponsible behaviour.”

The Post had previously reported that attempts to keep Dunlop Motorsport in the city had seen eight potential sites for a new facility identified, including at the Advanced Manufacturing Hub in Aston.

The move – which has seen jobs shifted to France and Germany – came after the site of its existing factory, in Ashold Farm Road, Castle Bromwich, was bought by neighbouring Jaguar Land Rover.

A Goodyear Dunlop spokesman told the Post the firm was consulting with staff over the move, and reiterated that it offered to remain in the city at its current base.