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Proceeding contribution from Boris Johnson (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 13 March 2017. It occurred during Budget debate on Budget Resolutions.

I will conclude with these thoughts.

Last Friday, I was in my constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, and I am proud to say that I visited a business on a backstreet in Uxbridge that has more or less cornered the market in manufacturing the fancy display cabinets used to sell delicacies such as Toblerone in every airport in Saudi Arabia, and it is expanding. Thanks to the ingenuity and enterprise of that business, if we go to a Saudi Arabian airport and buy a Toblerone, we will buy it over a counter made in Uxbridge.

Given the ingenuity that this nation is showing, I believe—

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
623 c92 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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