Mike Wood

We are constantly told by the doom-mongers that Brexit is somehow the sole author of our national economic woes, but the empirical evidence tells a vastly different story. Recent analysis by the Centr

I think that having control of an independent trade policy where we can get those deals in the interests of the British economy—whether the CPTPP or the trade agreements with India or the Gulf Co-oper

Is that parliamentary language, Mrs Barker? I do not know how long it takes for the cogs to turn, but it has been a while. What sort of economic club are the petitioners urging us to re-enter? Thirty

I quoted you an awfully long time ago on something fairly sympathetic, I think. [ Interruption. ]

I will continue for a bit. I have given way four times; I think I have been more than generous.

No, not at all. I am not somebody who questions people’s motives or intelligence just because of the way they have approached the question of Europe; I very much leave that to others. I will say that