Leaving the EU: No-deal Alternatives Debate
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John Stevenson
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Leaving the EU: No-deal Alternatives
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Antoinette Sandbach
I completely support and endorse my hon. Friend’s comments.
John Stevenson
My hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Heidi Allen) raised my question. In the referendum our country was divided between 52% and 48%. Does my hon. Friend the Member for Eddisbury (Antoinette Sandbach) agree that the EFTA solution potentially unifies those two groups?
Antoinette Sandbach
I certainly do. It delivers what many people voted for, which was to leave the political institutions of the European Union while continuing our prosperity and building on our common links with the European Union. It would enable us to be in that common market that so many people originally voted for, with all the benefits that it entails for our businesses and constituents.