Responding to the EU Referendum result, Graham Brady said:
‘The British people have made a brave and correct decision. Britain always wanted just a trading arrangement with the EU – we have never wanted to be part of a greatly integrated political union. In my view it was inevitable that Britain would have to leave the EU sooner or later and it would not have been any easier had we waited longer. The British Government should now set about negotiating an open trading relationship with the European Union but also begin developing new trading agreements with the many growth markets around the world with which the EU has failed to reach agreement: China, India and the United States are among them.
It has to be right for a proud country like ours with a long tradition of democracy, liberty and the rule of law to be able to make our own laws, choose our own governments and to dismiss them when they fail.’