Rory Stewart

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.

We could cut taxes massively.

We could bring in global wealth.

We wouldn't need to worry about state aid rules, so we could do an enormous investment program where we could bet the house on certain kinds of things.

We don't need to worry about fiscal rules, etc.

So that'd be the story.

What would be your response to that?

It was really interesting.