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Phillips said: “Since Brexit , it’s pretty clear that opinion in the country has changed. When people are asked whether we should rejoin the EU or whether we should have a closer relationship, it’s pretty unequivocal.“Fifty-five per cent think we should rejoin, half think we should join a single market if we were able to. And most of all, 62% think Brexit was a failure.”
Griffith replied: “I don’t think Brexit was a failure. First of all, the ability to make one’s own laws, which is something that most modern states have, is never a failure. That’s part of democracy.Asked by Phillips what they were, Griffith said: “73 trade deals.” But the presenter told him: “Come on, most of those were rollovers. They existed before and all you did was roll them over.”Griffith said: “Many were and many weren’t. As responsible for our financial services industry, one of our biggest industries in the UK, I was able as the UK minister to make a whole set of improvements to improve the competitiveness of our financial services because of those Brexit freedoms that we had.
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