00:00We inherited a really bad Brexit deal that Boris Johnson had negotiated.
00:05It was a botched deal, it doesn't work for businesses, it doesn't work for the country.
00:08What I've done in two years is to completely reset our relations with our EU partners,
00:13to already have improved on that deal, which is what I did last year.
00:18This year we have another summit with the EU, where we're going to take a really important
00:23leap forward in terms of the relationship, bring us closer to Europe, it's really good
00:27for businesses, really good for some of the businesses in this room, really good for
00:31the country.
00:31So that's what I intend to do, not get lost in a debate about what may happen years down
00:37the line.
00:37I'm grounded in the job that I'm doing, which is to make sure we are closer to the EU and
00:44doing the hard yards of making sure that we establish the relationship to make that work,
00:48get that relationship with the EU into a better place.
00:52And again, reminding myself why would we want to do that for businesses, for the country,
00:57for the economy, because it's the best thing, it's in our national interest.
01:00So that's where my focus is.
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