Trade minister Kemi Badenoch has savaged the French and German economies claiming “Brexit’s working”.
Badenoch said the UK had recovered “more strongly” from Covid than the two European countries, with the UK leapfrogging France to become the eighth largest manufacturing country in the world.
Writing in a column for The Sun, she said “greenfield” foreign investment was greater than the two countries combined adding that alongside prime minister Rishi Sunak she had just secured £30bn of foreign investment in Britain.
She also bragged about Nissan’s £2bn investment to produce two new electric car models in Sunderland saying it had proven former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell wrong when he said “if we leave, Nissan leaves”.
Badenoch said: “Many of the people and institutions with the loudest voices in our public debate noisily prophesied that Brexit would be an economic disaster.
“So perhaps it is only natural that they have not been keen to highlight the awkward news that it has been anything but.”
She added that Land Rover owner, Tata, had announced one of the largest-ever investments in the UK car industry with its plans to build a new in Somerset, while BMW had committed £600m to a modernisation of its Mini factory in Oxfordshire.
Badenoch added: “The anti-Brexit economic predictions simply haven’t come to pass.”
She said Brexit was a vote of confidence in the UK by British people, which had seen Microsoft, Google and other tech companies invest billions.
Badenoch wrote: “Brexit was a vote of confidence by the British people in our country.
“A conviction that we would be better off as masters of our own fate.
“That conviction has paid dividends and it will keep doing so because I am determined to work day in and day out to reap the benefits of Brexit.”
