Next Steps in Leaving the European Union

Richard Drax Excerpts

Monday 10th October 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davis]

The simple answer is this. Throughout the entire referendum campaign, I was trying to think through not so much the retention of the European market, but how we best develop the international markets. Those were my thoughts at that time and, as a Back Bencher, I was entirely entitled to have those thoughts.

[Richard Drax (South Dorset) (Con)]

Airbus is a wonderful example of European co-operation. The fuselages are built in France and Germany, and the wings in this country. Does my right hon. Friend agree that any politician or bureaucrat who tried to punish such a project, which has created so much wealth and prosperity and so many jobs, would be mad, bad or totally out of touch with the people they professed to represent?

[Mr Davis]

I would simply add one other word. They would be not mad or bad, but simply unwise.