Leaving the EU: Economic Analysis Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Leaving the EU: Economic Analysis

Luciana Berger Excerpts
Wednesday 28th November 2018

(6 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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I think I can keep my answer fairly short and say to my hon. Friend that we do indeed have precisely the resolve that he seeks.

Luciana Berger Portrait Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree) (Lab/Co-op)
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The Chancellor said this morning:

“There will be a cost to leaving the European Union, because it makes our trade less fluid and it cuts us from an important export market. It creates some level of barriers.”

In another interview, the Chancellor agreed with the interviewer’s analysis that every scenario under which we leave will be detrimental to our country’s GDP. Constituents of mine have already been in touch this morning appalled by these admissions from Government. Why does the Minister believe democracy was suspended two and a half years ago, and why will he not ask the country if this is actually what people really want?