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We have a government that doesn't know what it's doing
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It's making bad decisions. Look at what they've done on Chagos. Look at what they've done with the family farmstacks
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Look at what they've done on winter fuel. Now, today, they're reversing this zero electric vehicles mandate
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which we had done previously. They messed everybody around, told people we were climate change deniers
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scrapped it. Now they've seen that actually their net zero plans don't make sense. Darren Jones is being a bit equivocal about that
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I don't know what's happening next week. He might come up with an industrial strategy
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What are you saying on the whole car industry problem? Because obviously we've got Jaguar Land Rover now temporarily suspending sales
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Yeah, because, of course, we didn't get we didn't get a reprieve on car tariffs. No, we didn't get a reprieve
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25 percent. The car industry is on its knees. Vauxhall's plant closed down a couple of weeks ago
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We've done it on the show. We've had people from manufacturing coming in saying we are having an absolute nightmare
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You've obviously come forward with that scrapping of the net zero by 2050 pledge
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what are you saying about EVs and how should the car industry be supported
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through this abject crisis? Well, let's look at what we did two years ago. All the car
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companies were telling me that this is not going to work unless the government pays
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a lot of money, a lot of subsidies. People didn't want to buy electric cars
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They very heavy on the roads It one of the reasons why we getting more potholes for example So we need to do we need to create policies that make sense Can people afford this Where are the components coming from Not just relying on China which is partly what President Trump is trying to do This trade war
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is really about China. The rest of us are in the way and are feeling the brunt of it. But another
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thing that we can do is start working with the other partners. We had the biggest post-Brexit
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trade deal, CPTPP, those 12 countries, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Canada, they're all feeling
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the brunt as well. We should be working with them. Let's try and lower some other tariffs
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Let's do more where we have influence as we do with the EU, rather than just sitting back and
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looking for more things to give away to the US. That's not the right way to do it
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Also, though, aren't we going to be worried that we are now going to be flooded with even more
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Chinese goods? I mean, you speak to somebody like James Dyson. He says the Chinese don't have any
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respect for intellectual property. They're just going to knock off my vacuum cleaner or my air
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dryer or whatever. And that's just the way the Chinese operate. They don't have any respect for
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any laws. That's where we should be focusing on the people who don't play by the rules
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Rather than throwing all the rules away, let's make sure that those who don't play by the rules
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are made accountable. That's where you use tariffs. That's what they're there for. WTO rules are about
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people who are dumping goods, over subsidizing, unfair competition. That's what tariffs should be
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used for. How about this whole idea of a no free trade deal without freedom of speech? You've spoken
