International Trade

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for International Relations and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 2:56 pm on 5 February 2020.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 2:56, 5 February 2020

I thank the Minister for that reply. Taking my cue from Dai Lloyd's question earlier on, will the Minister acknowledge the vital importance of doing an early trade deal with the United States, where we have a pro-Brexit Government that is keen to help us as a country, in stark contrast to Monsieur Barnier, who maintains a policy of intransigence and seems to want us, for the indefinite future, to accept rules and regulations made by EU institutions in which we will not be participating, which no self-respecting nation in the world could possibly accept?

The United States is a vast and growing economy—national income's gone up by 50 per cent since 2010, whereas, in the EU, it's flatlined. So, we should therefore see the massive advantages of doing an early deal with the US, not least because that's the best way of putting pressure on the EU to do a sensible and rational trade deal with us.