Commenting on the Deal to leave the EU negotiated by Boris Johnson and his team, Michael Fabricant says: 

“Now that the back stop has been scrapped which would have kept the UK in the EU indefinitely for as long as the EU wanted, I can enthusiastically support Boris’ new Deal.

“This negotiation has been an incredible achievement!  Boris has been PM for less than 90 days and he has achieved what the EU said they would never allow.

“Instead, both the Withdrawal Agreement and the Political Declaration have now been changed and the backstop deleted. It means we will leave the EU entirely. Northern Ireland will remain fully in the UK Customs territory and the entire UK will leave the Customs Union and Single Market.

“I am already hearing talk of how we will scrap VAT rates on domestic fuel and women’s sanitary towels once we have left.  We are currently not allowed to reduce any VAT rates while we remain in the EU.

“With the EU saying that they will not grant an extension even if Parliament – made up of a majority of MPs who never wanted to honour the referendum – forces Boris to write a letter requesting to remain after October 31^st, the choice seems clear.  We will either leave the EU on October 31^st with this deal or none at all.

“Putting it bluntly, Boris and his team have pulled a blinder.  As a French Government official said yesterday ‘France fears a ruthless economic competitor in the UK once it has left the EU’.  I say ‘Bring it On!’.

“Ours will be a sovereign nation again and our prosperity will not be limited by a Europe in decline as it is at present.  We will be the global trading nation we always were.”