Hollinrake: Closer ties to EU will cause trade issues

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Conservative Party Chair Kevin Hollinrake claims closer relations with the EU will cause "real problems" trading with non-EU nations. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00There's a price to pay for everything and what it'll mean is UK businesses

00:03becomes a rule taker, they're the rule maker. It means the rules that govern

00:09plant health, animal welfare, all those kind of things are set in the EU in

00:13Brussels rather than the UK and I don't think people voting for

00:18Brexit thought that would be the case. Also causes real problems in terms of

00:23trading with other nations so we've struck 73 trade agreements around the

00:27world including places like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Pacific countries

00:31all that's at risk if you lock yourself in to something called dynamic

00:36alignment with the EU and that's what it looks like the Labour government is

00:40going to do.

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