EU Withdrawal: Effect on National Security

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 April 2016.

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Photo of Edward Leigh Edward Leigh Conservative, Gainsborough 12:00, 18 April 2016

President Obama is indeed visiting the country later this week. Nobody doubts for a second the total commitment of the United States to NATO, and nobody claims for a second that, just because the United States is not in the EU, it is any less committed to national defence, NATO or anything else—indeed, it would never surrender a jot of its sovereignty. The fact is that our security depends on NATO, not the EU, and if we leave the EU, we will be just as safe as we are now.