The Importance of Foreign Policy in the UK

If we had been in the EU during those crucial months that you've just described, it would have been a priority to stick to the Normandy format. I really don't think the UK would have been in a position to do things as differently and as dynamically as we did. Number three, the deal with the Australians and the Americans over, I'm just thinking about foreign policy. There's no way we could have done that. And things like genomic editing, there's a crazy European call to justice ruling against doing it. But it's a process not an event and will continue to reap dividends.