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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

We absolutely did the right thing on vaccines. But to use one optional procurement project as a business case for not retaining closer ties to our major market and to replace it with lots of red tape, costs bureaucracy and other deterrents to trade is interesting, to say the least.

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That's what being a third country looks like, despite the promises of David Davis to the contrary. It's inevitable we will develop closer ties with the EU and I'm grateful we got a trade agreement which provides the means to achieve this.

Actually your note above proves the point that Brexit was right.

On the one hand, our freedom to act (in any way) has been clearly demonstrated as a benefit.

On the other hand, the inevitability you state of developing closer "ties" with the EU via development of the existing trade agreement is logical and does not need us to be in the EU.

So thank you at last.