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Last Wednesday was the 216th anniversary of the birth of one of my heroes, Richard Cobden, a key figure in the fight against the Corn Laws in the 1840s and one of the forefathers of the free trade movement in this country.

Scottish Agricultural exports are among the best – my Scottish colleagues would say the best – in the world. Despite representing a Norfolk constituency, we can all agree that there is nothing better than Scottish beef or lamb to complete the perfect meal.

As a child growing up in the Eighties, with the first female prime minister leading our nation, I always assumed women could do anything men could do. It never crossed my mind that being a girl would hold me back. I wasn’t aware of the fight it had been to get there.

The UK is a high-quality and competitive producer of agricultural and agri-food products. But we understand that farmers too are facing difficult challenges as a result of the coronavirus.

It is crucial that the battle to save lives from coronavirus is coupled with long-term efforts to protect livelihoods and ways of life.

Advances in health, technology and knowledge have added 25 years to global life expectancies since 1950.

Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.

That is why the prime minister and government have been quick to act—working to a scientifically-led, step-by-step action plan and taking the right measures at the right time.

The Department for International Trade launched our consultation calling on businesses and individuals to have their say and shape the UK’s new Global Tariff yesterday.

We start this year as an EU member state and we will end it as an independent trading nation. 2020 is the year the UK reaches out across the world and kick starts the decade of trade.

One of the greatest boons of Brexit is that we are going to take back control of our future.

We will decide what regulations we want, we will decide how we want our economy to be run and we will decide how we want to run our public services.

The NHS is the nation’s proudest and most beloved institution. For more than 70 years, it has been there for all of us, through the highs and lows, from cradle to grave – we all have a personal connection in some way.