Barry Gardiner: Repower Britain will take back control in our homes

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Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade, Europe, Energy and Climate Change, Barry Gardiner, speech to Labour Party Conference - in full

Conference: We are a proud trading nation! But leaving the EU will proufoundly change how we trade. 45 per cent of our exports and 53 per cent of our imports are with the EU: And this level of trade...

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