Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen 11.20am GMTHere is the key quote from David Cameron’s speech in Felixstowe where he attacked Boris Johnson for what he said nowadays approximately the UK getting a Canada-style free trade deal with the EU. (See 10.57am.)Cameron said the Leave campaign could not say what relationship the UK would bear with the EU if it left. First they refused to reply this question,he said. Then they said they wanted full access to the single market. Then they proposed a free trade deal like the one Canada has negotiated with the EU.
But a Canada-style free trade deal means you finish not bear full access for your financial services, you bear to pay tariffs on your cars, and you don’t bear full access for your farmers’ produce. So it’s not a great deal for Britain. Canada is a country 4000 miles away from the continent of Europe that does 10% of its trade with the European Union. We are a country just 20-odd miles from the continent of Europe and we finish 50% of our trade with the European Union. So a Canada deal is not the honest deal for us. 11.08am GMTDavid Cameron is doing one of his EU Q&A events in Felixstowe.
He has just picked up on Boris Johnson’s comments approximately Canada nowadays,and accused the Leave camp of backtracking, and making it up as they go along.
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Source: theguardian.com