John Redwood

The EU will need to buy from UK defence manufacturers. We do not need to undermine our opportunity to expand the UK fishing industry for them to do so.

There is no need to give more of our fish away to the EU for a defence deal. The UK needs to concentrate on increasing our own defence budget and spending the money with our own companies and factories.

All the time we were in the EU too much of our fish was taken by EU vessels and our own industry was run down. Time to rebuild, not to give away yet more of our fish. Make boats land catch from our waters in UK ports.

The Product Regulation and Metrology Bill is another blow to business confidence and prosperity. It will raise business costs and make it more difficult to trade with America and Asia.

The government is legislating to burden us all with more EU regulation and put us back under their control when we need to use Brexit freedoms to boost our economy and trade. See @andrewgriffith in the Telegraph today.

Why does the UK have such high tariffs on butter and beef when we import so much? The tariffs were designed by the EU to favour Irish and continental producers, keeping out non EU.

Why does the UK keep tariffs on olive oil and rice when we do not produce these items? The UK Brexit policy was meant to be to remove all tariffs on things we do not produce at home. Why tax UK consumers in this way?

Rachel Reeves wants to be friends with China, so why didn't she reach agreement with them on British Steel? Is she wanting to compensate them for intervening without taking over ownership of the company? Who pays the losses at British Steel now?

Why does the UK let in lots of food tariff free from Ireland but not from the USA? Competition between US and Ireland would give us more choice and lower prices.

US food is fine to eat but you do not have to buy it if you do not like it. Do a deal on fair trade in food.

Why does the UK government keep inherited high EU tariffs on some imports but dislikes US ones?

The EU is not about free trade. It is a Customs Union with many tariffs and barriers against the rest of the world. Doing a deal with the US will not be easy for them. President Trump likes the Italian PM but she has no power to change EU trade barriers.

The UK needs to be much more positive about getting rid of barriers to promote more US trade. We impose high tariffs on foods , special taxes on their technology and over regulate the internet.

The UK should drop the idea of a big new tariff in the form of the carbon border tax. This would be a damaging tax on UK consumers, with another rise in prices.

Why do we pay so much money to France to stop the people smugglers when they do so little to prevent illegal and dangerous boat trips from their beaches?

The UK needs to offer zero tariffs to the US as we provide to the EU. Why zero tariffs for EU where we run a big deficit but not for the US where have a better balanced trade?

Most important the UK does not join the EU emissions trading scheme to damage us with still higher energy prices. We need to cut energy taxes and costs to create more jobs and boost real incomes.