Mr. Neil McDonnell:

I genuinely do not see it as an issue. Funnily enough, this came up this morning. What we do in SME United is look at the output of the major directorates in Brussels. With the best will in the world, the countries bordering the Celtic Sea and the North Sea all have an interest in Brexit and the UK. France has an interest to an extent while Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden also have an interest. Thereafter interest wanes. It really does. Obviously, the Germans have a big interest in selling cars but even their small businesses told our secretary general this morning that it is not really top of the agenda any more. The Austrian representative said the same thing. We are so consumed by Brexit that we think everyone in the rest of Europe spends a lot of time worrying about it when they do not. Britain is gone. I will not say they do not care. It has made trade very difficult but they have enough to be getting on with. They are worried about the corporate sustainability reporting directive, CSRD, and the due diligence directive. That is what we spend most time talking about.