Extract from Lords debate on Brexit: UK-EU Relations (EUC Report) - July 2

Tuesday, 3 July 2018 08:05

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (Lab):...Trade experts are ignored, especially when they remind the Prime Minister that we export 10 times more to the EU than to China, 25 times more than to Canada and 40 times more than to India, and that therefore any new trade patterns will take many decades to make good losses with the EU. By the way, any idea that a US deal would be great for us somehow overlooks the interests of America—their desire to send us hormone-injected beef and...Request free trial