As a Brexit Party candidate, I along with the Brexit Party team firmly believe in the economic benefits of a clean-break Brexit and, having worked directly with the EU and businesses during my career.
I will campaign for Britain to take full advantage of the benefits of leaving the EU, including pursuing a global trade policy that places Britain in the best possible position to capitalise on the opportunities that the global economy will bring as it evolves through the 21st century.
In conjunction with this, we need a fairer, more sensible, immigration system, attracting the best talent from across the entire globe, regardless of nationality.
Only a clean-break Brexit can provide the UK with the opportunity to take control of our laws, more effectively manage the economy and to establish closer ties with growing economies around the world. It will enable us to:
Business environment
- improve the business environment (particularly smaller business) by cutting red-tape caused by burdensome EU rules;
- be more innovative in developing agriculture and industry as the world adapts to ever-increasing technological advances in the 21st century and we move to a sustainable carbon neutral (or even carbon-negative) world;
Drive investment across the UK
- invest in and develop UK infrastructure without the restrictions and additional costs of EU laws;
- encourage more foreign investment into the UK and reduce geographic wealth inequality by encouraging investment in more deprived areas with effective tax and regulatory policies;
More ability to protect industry and workers (see also workers’ rights page)
- eliminate EU state aid and adapt competition rules to enable the UK to take more effective protective measures for UK industry where needed and in the public interest. This may include encouragement of innovation by start-up and growing companies, better protecting key companies and industries, and levelling the playing field in the face of potential external anti-competitive or unfair practices;
Redirect money paid to the EU
- divert money away from funding the EU to improving social services for all (which is why the Brexit Party does not support the badly negotiated EU Withdrawal Treaty); and
Fairer and managed migration
- select the best talent from all over the world to better meet ongoing UK immigration needs on a fair and equal basis, regardless of nationality. The UK should end freedom of movement of persons so it no longer artificially prioritises EU nationals over the rest of the world, but intead treats all migrants equally.
Harder working MPs
To achieve the above goals we need a new set of politicians who will work much harder and actually do key parliamentary work (probe reports and do some actual law making) for the UK economy and its population for the first time in generations. As UK Parliamentarians will be forced to taken on work undertaken by the EU, reflecting what democratic Parliaments are actually meant to do, we need MPs with both vision and the capacity to work much harder.