europe also depends on our willingness and readiness to act beyond the content of europe itself. there is no contradiction between these deep relationships based on fundamental interests and are pursuing our own prosperity in our own way, and that is the second point i want to make. i said our influence on the eu now comes to the power of example and hence also through a healthy degree of competition. brexit is about doing things differently, not for the sake of it, but because it suits us and because it creates a greater variety of alternative futures, and history shows that it is genuine competition, regulatory and commercial between states, which has typically been the most reliable driver of innovation and progress. that is what some people call a hard brexit, in its original sense of leaving the eu customs union, it was essential, it was the only form of

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