31 January 2012
Following the Prime Minister's statement on the European Council meeting, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown welcomes the PM's strategy of rejecting the fiscal union treaty but pushing for free trade agreements with countries such as Canada, Japan and India.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds) (Con): Is not my right hon. Friend’s strategy of rejecting the fiscal union treaty, which would not be in Britain’s economic interests, and at the same time pushing for a free trade agreement with Canada, Japan and India, which has the potential to create thousands of jobs in this country, absolutely the right one?
The Prime Minister: I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I think that Britain is better off outside the eurozone, but clearly we need to get trade going with parts of the world that are growing faster, which is why these trade deals are so important to us.
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds) (Con): Is not my right hon. Friend’s strategy of rejecting the fiscal union treaty, which would not be in Britain’s economic interests, and at the same time pushing for a free trade agreement with Canada, Japan and India, which has the potential to create thousands of jobs in this country, absolutely the right one?
The Prime Minister: I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I think that Britain is better off outside the eurozone, but clearly we need to get trade going with parts of the world that are growing faster, which is why these trade deals are so important to us.
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