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Future Free Trade Agreements

Is the right hon. Gentleman seriously saying that the Treasury’s suggestion that getting out of the European Union and the single market will

hit the UK economy by 6% to 8% is not actually the truth? That is what is going to happen; he knows that we will take a GDP hit from that. He also knows that a deal with the USA, which accounts for a quarter of the world’s GDP, will give us only a 0.2% gain. He will need to make about 30 or 40 USA-style deals to make up for that loss. Given that the USA accounts for a quarter of the planet, he is going to have to trade with seven or eight planets to make up the loss resulting from his Government’s policy on Europe.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
654 c1623 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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