“It's not us that loses financially if we don't have a free trade agreement, it's Germany and France and other European countries, and that's why of course there will be a free trade agreement that allows all our business to trade freely to and from continental Europe. It will take a relatively short period time in my view because they lose financially.”

— Chris Grayling

Source: Interviewed on Sunday Politics London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPJW7s_B91o#t=8m (21 February 2016)

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