We have various thoughts about this.

And the first thing I really want to make clear is that there is no such thing as a hard or a soft Brexit.

You're either in the EU or you're out of it.

Now you might be able to be half in the room, as I see over there, and half out of it.

Some of you are.

But most of you are either in the room or out of it, and you're either in the EU, and you've got the four freedoms of it, some of you are, but most of you are either in the room or out of it and you're

either in the EU and you've got the four freedoms of people, of capital, of goods and of

services or you're not. And so we do have to be very clear about that. I really do wish we

could get away from this conversation about hard and soft Brexit. Are we going softer?

There's no such thing, okay? You're either in it or you're out of it. And what we are very

clear about as the government is we are leaving the European Union in March 2019 and we will be leaving

those four freedoms. We'll be taking back control of our money, our borders and our laws. And that's absolutely

fundamental to all of this. So there isn't going to be any staying in or extending or messing about.

And implementation doesn't mean being straightjacketed into kicking the can down the road and not

leaving. We will be leaving. And the reason why it's called implementation

is because there will be systems and arrangements that aren't quite ready in March 2019.

But that does not mean that we're kicking the can down the road. So we are definitely leaving the EU,

and it is definitely in March 2019. So now we've got that straight. OK?

All clear?

Excellent.

Charles.

Charles and I go back a long way, and we don't agree on that.

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