Leaving the EU: Economic Analysis Debate

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Paul Blomfield

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Leaving the EU: Economic Analysis

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Tuesday 30th January 2018

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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That is simply not the case. As I have not hesitated to say several times, the economic analysis does not show the country being worse off; it shows the country being better off under all circumstances. It shows GDP growing—

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The shadow Minister says it is nonsense, but I can assure him that it is not. The economic analysis shows GDP increasing in all circumstances. The point of the Government’s policy must be to carry through faithfully the decision of the British people and to do so in a way that proves these doom-mongers and naysayers wrong.

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