North West Leicestershire MP Andrew Bridgen has compared negotiating Britain’s departure from the EU to akin buying a car.
During a debate on Brexit and global trade in the House of Commons, Tory MP Mr Bridgen said to Barry Gardiner, the shadow secretary of state for international trade that the country would get an “exceptional deal” if it fails to accept that “no deal is an option”.
He said: “We talk about whether no deal is better than a bad deal.
“I put it to him that without accepting that, it doesn’t mean we’re going to get a good deal, but if we don’t accept, no deal is an option. We’re guaranteed we’ll not get an exceptional deal.
He added that if we "were to go and buy a car and say, ‘I have to buy a car today’, or we went and said ‘I’d like to buy a car, but I don’t have to buy a car today,’ which would be the better deal?”
Mr Bridgen added: “And would he like to buy a car?”
Barry Gardiner, the shadow secretary of state for international trade, said the triggering of Article 50 had set “precisely the time frame in which he bought the car”.
“It said that within two years, we either had to negotiate a deal or we would be then trading on World Trade Organisation terms – he makes my point precisely.”
