I do not want to put a precise number on this. There is a threshold, and it depends on which those countries might be, but if I thought that three or four significant economies were going in the same direction, the case for doing this would be much stronger. Or, to put the reverse argument, if I were standing here next year and two or three other countries had gone down this route, the concerns that I am expressing from the Dispatch Box today would clearly carry less weight than I think they do today.
Finance Bill
Proceeding contribution from
David Gauke
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 28 June 2016.
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