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[The Shires 🌸 @Tim_C66]

@David__Osland You should look at Blair's numbers!

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@richardpbacon Oh dear...economics not your strong point old chap.

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@51TJK Nonsense

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@lewis_goodall Thank goodness for Brexit.

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@Dougmcg1 Check your facts matey...

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@Kevin_Maguire Brexit benefit

[Sir Liam Fox @LiamFox]

Since the date that Britain left the European Union (the single market and the customs union), the economies in the United States and the United Kingdom have grown by 19.2% and 15.7% respectively.

The two biggest EU economies — Germany and France — have grown by 4.5% and 10.5%.

Why would the Burnham Labour government want to tie us more closely again to the single market and the customs union? Britain’s exports to non-EU countries have risen to almost 60% of the total in the same period.

Before they crow about today’s growth figures, they might want to consider the utter stupidity of their own EU policy.

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@JohnRentoul Because the UK despite poor numbers has ourperformed the EU..

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@MatthewStadlen And they want to tie us to a failing EU trading bloc!

[Gully Foyle @TerraOrBust]

So the UK Fresh Produce Consortium says that a full half of imported fresh produce, comes from outside of the EU - and the EU reset will make it more expensive.

So the EU reset is going to make food more expensive, not less expensive.

Why are we doing this again?

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@KevinASchofield He should shut up but Soubry, Campbell, Clegg should be heard.

See the problem!

[Bloomberg @business]

The UK’s economic problems “have nothing to do with Brexit,” former Prime Minister David Cameron tells Mishal Husain.

Read more at https://t.co/E3V5jpHtsZ or watch The Mishal Husain Show at https://t.co/G9sjpSxpLX

[Raheem J. Kassam @RaheemKassam]

BREAKING: David Cameron says Britain's economic problems "have nothing to do with Brexit".

The former Remain leader blames overspending, over-borrowing and over-taxing, and warns Burnham that flirting with rejoining the EU could leave Britain with a worse deal.

https://t.co/2SESOtLipP

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@BenKentish He's been there and got the tee-shirt..

Sound advice...

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@gowildannette @Helen_Whately @Conservatives I heard Badenoch and Whately on the radio yesterday. Both were very clear. Those that cannot work, should be supported, those that choose to live behind a label need to start contributing. We have to be honest, we all someone or a family who plays the system, it has to stop.

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@MrMark_James @Conservatives And the Blair Govt bankrupted the country... not an ideal financial model.

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@ToryVote_

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

***EXCLUSIVE by @MishalHusain***

David Cameron says Britain should NOT rejoin the EU

The former prime minister warns Andy Burnham that starting a conversation about rejoining would be “very long and painful”

Speaking in a Bloomberg interview, Cameron urges Burnham not to trigger another “decade-long debate about whether should be in or out.” He also says the UK should not enter a customs union with the EU

As the PM who led the Remain campaign in 2016, Cameron’s intervention will be seen as significant. He says Britain’s economic problems aren’t due to Brexit

“Today, instead of launching an argument about rejoining, which I think would be a very long and painful argument, and who knows where it would end up, instead of that, focus on how do we be the best friend, best neighbour, best partner,” Cameron says

The former PM also warns Burnham that talking about Britain rejoining could hamper future negotiations

“If you start endlessly producing this idea that we’re actually on a path to rejoining, I think you’re in danger of getting a less good partnership deal because of course the EU countries will just think: well, these guys are gonna rejoin anyway, so what’s the point in giving them a good partnership deal… If you’re not going to, you know, commit to trying to make the partnership stronger because you’re flirting with rejoining, I think there’s some dangers there,” Cameron says

“I don’t think actually necessarily joining a customs union is the right answer. If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don’t really think they’ve got anything to do with Brexit at all. I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit. We need a government that actually gets spending under control, gets taxes down, helps entrepreneurs, deals with our borrowing problem, reforms the welfare, and massively deregulates so we can build houses, build infrastructure. None of those have got anything to do with Europe. So that’s sort of, in a way, that’s my point. Do we really want to go into another decade-long debate about whether we should be in or out, when actually we should deal with our own problems while making the partnership model work?”

“I fought the campaign to stay in on an amended basis, and I obviously wanted to win that campaign. I was desperately disappointed that we lost that campaign. But I’m a democrat, a believer in democracy. We voted to leave, and I think the right thing now is to try and become, you know, not just neighbors, partners, and friends of the EU, but the best friends, the best neighbors, the best partners. And I think we can make that work”

Story by @ChaplainChloe: https://t.co/gKPvWA9LAu

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@nikpet1

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@Helen_Whately Agreed