If Turkey is admitted to the EU, it will be the largest member state in terms of population and size, meaning that the Union will be irrevocably changed both in terms of what it already is and what it can aspire to become. Turkey's accession would inevitably mean that the Union would remain a loose association of nation states for the foreseeable future. I do not want to see such a Union as I believe in deepening the nature of the relationship between the member states. It seems that the Government does not share my interest in that regard, an issue to which I will return. There is merit in being candid by saying to our Turkish friends that while we will deal with them in terms of economic agreements and including them in the Single Market regulations, we do not believe that Turkish membership of the EU is possible. The bulk of Turks are not European and do not aspire to being European. The United States of America would not admit Mexico because Mexico is not part of the US and never will be.