Rory Stewart

We can save all that money and we can put it into something else.

You could say,

Listen, now that we've left the European Union, we can cut our tax rates down to the very minimum.

We can get rid of all the workers' protection.

We can get rid of all that stuff because we really can become American Singaporeans.

But the problem that they face is that

all the polling suggests there is almost no support amongst the public.

There is support amongst a small group of entrepreneurial businessmen who love Singapore, love Dubai.

That's why Rishi Sunak was quite interested in this.

Obviously, this was Liz Truss' vision.

But what did Liz Truss discover over her 49 days?

She discovered there was no support from the public or the markets for turning Britain into that kind of thing.

In fact, the problem actually

is that Britain isn't Singapore or Hong Kong or even the United States being held back by European manacle.

In many ways, our cultural social attitudes are very Scandinavian.

They're very sort of European.

So it turned out that what stopped us doing this wasn't being in the European Union.

It was us.

Another paradox.

I absolutely resonated with one of their points, right?