Preparations for Leaving the EU Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Preparations for Leaving the EU

Clive Efford Excerpts
Tuesday 8th October 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Clive Efford Portrait Clive Efford (Eltham) (Lab)
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Figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that after 10 years of austerity we are back to square one, with no discernible global financial crisis to explain the Government’s incompetent handling of the finances. Would any other Government whose finances were in that state consider a no-deal Brexit?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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Business takes a variety of views on Brexit, and indeed on a no-deal Brexit, but I have yet to meet a single business man, woman or organisation that thinks that a no-deal Brexit would be worse than a Jeremy Corbyn Government.