Yes, there is another future

„In an EU referendum I would vote to stay in if and only if we get the reforms we need. I think we’ve got to be absolutely prepared to go into the conversation saying, ‘Look, there’s a big wide world out there, we’ve got huge interests and growing interests in the former Commonwealth countries, with America, with the developing world’. And that’s where the growth markets are. There is no reason why Britain should be necessarily fettered, tied exclusively to its relationship with Europe.

And, by the way, if we did leave, we would almost instantly rebuild the single market and our membership of the common market, as it was once called, overnight because they would be utterly mad to exclude a massive economy with which they have a favourable balance of trade ...

In a negotiation where people like me and David want to see serious improvements, and we want to see less law coming from Brussels, you have got to be able to say to them, ‘Yes, there is another future’. If you don’t have that basic willingness to walk away, you cannot hope for a successful outcome in the negotiations.”