Uk’S Withdrawal from the European Union

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:54 pm on 13 March 2019.

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Photo of Crispin Blunt Crispin Blunt Conservative, Reigate 3:54, 13 March 2019

I think the right hon. and learned Gentleman has mistaken my hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) with my hon. Friend Richard Harrington, the Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. It is important to make that correction.

What businesses are saying to me is that their key enemy is uncertainty. If they do not have certainty over the future terms of trade, investment decisions will continue to be postponed. There is certainty over those terms of trade if we leave the European Union on 29 March either with the Prime Minister’s agreement or moving to World Trade Organisation terms.