father in law, for whom i have nothing but enormous pride and admiration for everything that he s achieved, and no amount of attempted smearing is going to make me change that, because he s wonderful and has achieved a huge amount, and i am enormously proud of him. 0n brexit, you said something interesting the other day, you came close to admitting that brexit was having a negative impact on trade. if people missed it, you said, it was always inevitable that we d be changing our trade intensity with europe as a result of the changing relationship. well, look, trade intensity going down, that means people are making less money, right, doesn t it? yeah, the point i was making, in fact, i ve said it before, and lots of other people have, the prime minister has said it before, there was always going to be a change in the nature of our trade with europe once we left a customs union. a customs union is a very particularform of how you trade with countries around you, and even though we h