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Tory MP: "I welcome the fact that the mood is changing" on Brexit

The Conservative MP for Mid Norfolk and Chair of the Conservative Policy Forum, George Freeman, has expressed concern that "the Conservative Party has been allowed to start to sound like a very shrill, ideological, partisan single-issue party that thinks Brexit is somehow going to solve all the many problems we face".

Speaking to the Westminster Hour, Mr Freeman said that he supported a Brexit focused on business, adding that he did not like the "hard" and "soft" Brexit language but "we have to be quite hard-nosed and quite soft-tongued".

Agreeing with fellow guest Stephen Kinnock's claim that the UK would not get a bespoke tailored deal with the EU, Mr Freeman also agreed that a transitional period in the EEA "may well work".