Kemi Badenoch admits Brexit hasn’t been as successful as it should have been

Kemi Badenoch admits Brexit hasn't been as successful as it should have beenGB News

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00:00Has Brexit been a success?

00:03Some of it has been a success, but a lot of it has not,

00:07because we are still too scared to take advantage of the opportunities.

00:12There is no point leaving the European Union

00:15if we just continue doing what the EU is doing.

00:18That is what I fought for when I was business and trade secretary.

00:21Signing trade deals, yes, cooperating with countries across the world, yes,

00:25but also looking at how we could have smarter regulation,

00:28looking at how we could compete better than our nearest neighbours.

00:32Being a competitive economy is one of the things that will help us grow.

00:36One of the reasons why Brexit has not been as much of a success as it should be

00:40is because we did not start with a plan, as I said.

00:43But the other reason that people think that it has created problems

00:46is because everything now is blamed on Brexit.

00:49When I travelled all around the world, I saw the same issues that we have here everywhere.

00:53In Australia, in Japan, in the US, in Canada, in Mexico,

00:57they all had issues with inflation.

01:00They all had issues with energy.

01:02They all had issues with mass migration.

01:04Italy, the island of Lampedusa, had more people on it arriving on small boats

01:09than residents living on that island.

01:11I was there two days after that happened.

01:13None of these problems are due to Brexit.

01:15We need to stop blaming Brexit for our problems.

01:17We need to stop blaming the EU or international agreements

01:20and start fixing problems here ourselves.