The Imperfection of Our Political Institutions

I spent five years as Deputy Prime Minister in Whitehall. At the end of that, I came out more anti-establishment than I went in. We've always been a great open trading economy to be an integral part of what is the world's largest borderless marketplace. The single market isn't about tariffs, those are the old taxes that are imposed on the things we trade on each other. It was invented by Brits, Lord Cofield was the European commissioner who invented it,. persuaded Jack to law to persuade Margaret Thatcher and she made us pro Europeans whether we like it or not. But turning our back on the single market would actually be an act of enormous economic self-harm