Rory Stewart
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Okay.
I'll put it in the strongest form.
The strongest form would be this.
It wasn't done right.
So, I guess if you're Dominic Cummings or you're Jacob Rees-Mogg, what you really think is, actually, if you leave the European Union, you could develop a real niche for yourself
being different from the European Union.
And what would being different from the European Union mean?
Well, exploiting all the opportunities.
You could cut your corporation tax down, you could change your VAT, you could get rid of all the regulations.
And here's the model, the optimistic vision for the next 10 years of Brexit.
Let's imagine
a massive Brexiteer got in.
What they would say is, we could become the technology innovation testbed of the world.
So let's say AI.
They'd say, look, European Union's just passed a whole series of very restrictive regulations on AI.
American companies are going to be reluctant to invest because of all these data restrictions.
We could become the great
testbed and partner for the US for pioneering the most exciting, cutting-edge AI models.
We could do the same on pharmaceuticals.
All their regulations might stop them.