'Keir Starmer has already begun weaving us back into fabric of the EU - we must watch carefully,' says Daniel Kawczynski

What was missing at almost every stage of the debates was an analysis as to how all of this was going to be paid for and how we would, in a post-pandemic world, get back to balancing the books and preparing financially for the next global disaster - which no doubt will descend on us and cause financial harm of the kind we have seen recently with Covid and before that with the Banking crisis.

At a time when the British people are already facing the highest taxes for a generation and many of our top professionals are moving their companies abroad to avoid the pernicious levels of corporation tax now employed in the UK, how do we actually start paying for the massive levels of social security payments and public services costs in our country?

Of course the answer is to become an ever stronger exporter.

Selling internally is money swilling around the system.

Exporting is hard currency coming into the country.

When you look at countries around the world with the highest levels of living standards there is a common thread between them namely they export in a disproportionately strong way.

Under the previous Conservative government, we became the world’s fourth largest exporter rising three positions since Brexit and achieving in exports the direct opposite of what scaremongering Remainers predicted - namely if we had the temerity to vote for Brexit, our exports would collapse.

A major benefit of Brexit of course was the fact that we have become the sole European country to enter the world’s largest trading block the CPTPP in the Far East.

This region, unlike the EU, is seeing massive economic growth and an expansion of hundreds of millions of middle class consumers all hungry for high quality British consumer products.

Under our membership, 99 per cent of our goods being exported to the CPTPP are tariff free thus giving British exporters an unprecedented advantage over French and German competitors.

We are now seeing an increasing number of companies from the EU investing in Britain and setting up production here so that they can use Britain as a springboard to enter these lucrative Far Eastern markets in a way which would not have been possible from their home nations.

MORE FROM GBN MEMBERSHIP:

• Starmer's nanny state monster is out of control - Brendan Clarke-Smith
• 'Working with European countries does not make us any less a free nation'
• 'Watch out pensioners - an attack on pension savings could be looming,' says John Redwood

In 1980, the EEC accounted for 25 per cent of global economy and today that figure is down to 10 per cent and falling.

We know that no man in the previous Parliament did more to try to thwart Brexit than Keir Starmer.

He has already started the process to slowly weave us back into the fabric of the EU with a view to accepting more rules from Brussels.

What we must check and fight against is if any of these impact on our unique benefits of trading with the CPTPP.

We will be watching carefully to ensure these newly secured exclusive rights for a European nation are not hampered.

It is only through trading more with these fast-growing markets do we stand any hope of paying for the increasing demands being made of the British state.