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Government draws a definitive line under a decade of
exhausting conflict on 10th anniversary of the referendum.
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EU Relations Minister warns isolation leaves UK factories
"without a coat" in a global trade war as he sets out binary
political foreign policy choices facing United Kingdom.
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Argues for prioritising economic security and hardheaded
continental defence over past political binaries
On the tenth anniversary of the Brexit vote, EU Relations
Minister will today call time
on the "pointless," toxic arguments of the past decade and lay
out a pragmatic new doctrine focused on national survival.
Thomas-Symonds will explicitly reject both the "unrealistic
mirage" of rejoining the EU and the "constant, exhausting
conflict" of tearing up treaties, in a dig at .
Instead, he will argue that a rebuilt, hardheaded relationship
with Europe is vital to protect British households from an
increasingly turbulent world.
Turning to the economy, Thomas-Symonds will warn that Britain
sits "slap bang in the middle" of a dangerous new era of global
protectionism and aggressive international tariffs.
He will warn that ideological isolationism offers no protection
for British industry and call for the relationship between the UK
and EU to change to reflect the shared challenges facing the
continent's supply chains:
Isolation won't duck the blow when global tariffs come knocking;
it just leaves British factories standing out in the cold without
a coat. Isolation won't lower your energy bills."
The Minister will conclude by declaring We live in a post-Brexit
world, and it's time people started acting like it.
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