Andrea Leadsom defends extra Brexit border checks
Brexit campaigner and government minister Dame Andrea Leadsom says “it was always clear” that leaving the EU single market would result in “additional frictions at the border”. The public health minister spoke about long-delayed new post-Brexit checks on food and drink imports which come into force. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 It was always clear that in leaving the EU single market that there would be additional frictions at the border
00:07 and that has taken a long time to actually be implemented and today is the day.
00:12 But in the meantime, since leaving the EU, we've signed up to 70 free trade deals with other countries around the world,
00:19 including being the first European nation to sign up to the Trans-Pacific Partnership,
00:24 which is the part of the world from which up to 50% of global growth is forecast to come in decades to come.
00:31 So that's incredibly valuable to the UK.
00:34 We've also seen other freedoms in, for example, our financial services sector,
00:38 where we've been able to introduce the Edinburgh reforms and we've reformed Solvency 2,
00:42 which means that we'll have up to 100 billion of new investment into infrastructure in our economy.
00:49 So there are huge advantages of the Brexit freedoms, but as I say, leaving the EU single market was always going to lead to increased friction
00:58 because it's no longer one market.