Thank you very much, it’s fantastic to be here this afternoon with so many brilliant women, from politics, from the lobby, and from Whitehall, who we are celebrating today.

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I am delighted to be the first Trade Secretary to represent the UK’s independent voice at an international meeting since Peter Walker, almost half a century ago.

February report 2020

Westminster Update

Conservative Norfolk MPs are working together to push for improvements across the county.

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.

The ‘Norfolk Eight’ of Conservative Members of Parliament this week made the case to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt. Hon Sajid Javid, that any ‘levelling up’ across the UK must include Norfolk.

I beg to move,

That this House has considered global Britain.

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.

Norfolk’s Infrastructure, health and education, a digital revolution in the county, and some blue sky thinking were all points of discussion at a meeting this week of Conservative Norfolk Members of Parliament in Westminster.

Thank you very much Emma Wade-Smith, HM Trade Commissioner for Africa and thank you very much too to the Lionesses of Africa for organising this fantastic evening. And congratulations on reaching the one million figure, it is really great to hear.

This is a decisive result and a clear vote of confidence in Boris Johnson and the Conservatives.