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 have, i think, an exceptionally deep, comprehensive, free trade agreement that there isn't