It’s time to defend and promote the ideas that have helped to bring globalisation – and in turn brought more wealth, peace and opportunity to billions of people.
It would be ambitious – but given Brexit, such ambition is necessary.
If so, we should pay any new costs.
All Labour has to do, if it wants to debate the Single Market in the Commons, is to hold opposition day debates on the subject.
“The success of global trading is key, not only to our own future prosperity but in liberating the millions of human beings who still live in the scandal of global poverty.”
London is as important to the EU, if not more important, than is the EU market to London.
To those who are trying to frighten British workers, saying “When we leave, employment rights will be eroded”, I say firmly and unequivocally “no they won’t’.
“It is not going to be a “Norway model”…It is going to be an agreement between an independent United Kingdom and the European Union.”
There is a trade-off between the long-term interest of the economy and the short-term interest of many Leave voters.
A Canadian-British trade agreement will take considerably less time than the current Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the EU.
Our country’s outward-looking, enterprising attitude has always been bound up with the sea, and it continues to carry the vast majority of our exports today.
“There’s no point in leaving if we then fail to press home the global opportunities that open up.”
There is no reason to suppose that the transition will be anything other than smooth.
The widespread presumption that everything is a matter for negotiation is damaging nonsense. Once we identify the issues which we can decide, Ministers can start taking decisions.
He must pick his targets carefully, relentlessly follow the big money and work closely with our friends in the Commonwealth.