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Future EU Finances and Own Resources

No, I will not. The real agenda is how on earth we make this effective single market even more effective. How can we expand the European Union and deepen the economic integration that is to our advantage and in the interests of the people I represent. The hon. Member for Castle Point (Bob Spink) mentioned my constituency of Caerphilly. I speak regularly to industrialists and, unanimously, they say to me, ““For goodness sake, let’s not go down this crazy road of separating ourselves from the European Union.”” Both the employers and the employees recognise fully that this country exports more to the European Union than to any other part of the world. To cut ourselves off from that and see the imposition, once again, of all the impediments to trade that used to exist, would be catastrophic to the economy of this country.