Michael Howard nails the fearmongers…
“We are the fifth biggest economy in the world. We are a market that everyone wants to have access to. We won’t have a Norwegian agreement with the EU, we’ll have a British agreement with the EU. We need a bit of self-belief and national self confidence. We’re a great country with the fifth largest economy in the world. Everybody wants access to our market. We won’t be supplicants. We will have a sensible agreement with the European Union which would give their countries access to our market and give us access to theirs.”
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”