Exiting the European Union

Andrew Murrison Excerpts

Monday 5th September 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davis]

I agree with the right hon. Lady that that is a high priority. If I can accelerate it, I will.

[Dr Andrew Murrison (South West Wiltshire) (Con)]

I welcome my right hon. Friend to his post. He is absolutely the right man to do this important work. He will appreciate the complete economic illiteracy of the European Union. On the one hand, it writes very big cheques to middle-income and developing countries to bail out their flailing economies, and on the other, it gives unequal access to European Union markets. That clearly hampers the ability of those countries to be equal partners rather than supplicants. How can Britain do better?

[Mr Davis]

I take my hon. Friend’s point well, but I am loth to offer free advice to people who are our negotiating partners. That is a central point of their own policy to put right.