The lawyer who recently negotiated Canada’s trade deal with the EU has ridiculed Jacob Rees’ Mogg claims about the benefits of a hard Brexit.

Christophe Bondy, who was the senior counsel to Canada on the CETA negotiations, couldn’t contain his contempt for Rees-Mogg’s bid to take Britain out of the Single Market and Customs Union during an interview with Sky News today.

Bondy didn’t mention Rees-Mogg by name but made reference to an exchange with an MP during his appearance in front of the Commons Brexit committee on Wednesday.

He said:

“I heard an MP on Wednesday say: ‘Well, one of the reasons to trade outside of the Common Market – to enter into trade deals – is that we’ll have access to cheaper tropical fruit.’ “I sat there thinking to myself: Is it better for the UK economy to have access to cheap tropical fruit or to have unhindered access to the EU market?”

A quick check of the record of Wednesday’s committee hearing shows Bondy is referring to this exchange in which Rees-Mogg:

Rees-Mogg’s made the choice in the next phase of Brexit negotiations very clear.

It’s workers’ rights, food and environmental standards, freedom of movement and tariff-free trade with our neighbours that maintains more than million jobs or a couple of pence off the price of oranges.

You can use them to try and get rid of that funny taste from your chlorine-washed chicken…

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