Monday, 14th March 2011
UKIP Leader Nigel Farage says he welcomed the article in the Daily Mail today highlighting the launch of the People's Pledge calling for a Referendum on our membership of the European Union.
"However the Daily Mail's leader argues that we must stay in the European Union due to its trade deals," Mr Farage said.
"This is transparently not the case. We can have free trade with the EU without being a member of that organisation.
"Currently the EU has trading deals either completed or in negotiation with over 60 different countries. And everyone from Neil Kinnock to Giscard d'Estaing has said that if Britain wants to set up a trade only deal then it could.
"And on Commonwealth Day we are reminded that there is a whole world out there that Britain should be trading freely with. But our membership of the EU's antiquated Customs Union prohibits us from negotiating such deals.
"I call on everybody to get in touch with the Daily Mail to make these facts clear to them."
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