Daily Mail

Remainer Hague talks up a deal

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WILLIAM Hague has declared it will be possible to achieve Brexit without the country ‘shooting its foot off’.

The former Tory leader supported the Remain campaign, but said it was important the referendum result is respected.

Lord Hague argued that the negotiatio­ns were the ‘most complex task’ any government has faced since the Second World War, but could be successful­ly navigated. He told Reflection­s with Peter Hennessy on BBC Radio 4: ‘It has to be delivered now, Brexit.

‘There is a way through because there is just sufficient space or common ground among the positions of the various political parties, the factions within parties, the business world – and that can be negotiated with the EU.

‘To me that means taking powers back, the sovereign powers back to the UK, leaving the EU, leaving the single market, but then using those in a very constructi­ve way which means continuing to have quite a liberal approach on migration, which is essential to our economy in the short term anyway, so we take back control but we use that to enter a strong free trade agreement.

‘You can take back control of a gun but it doesn’t mean you use it to shoot your foot off. So let’s take back control but enter willingly as a sovereign nation into a very robust free trade agreement.’

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