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The Prime Minister spoke on the UK's economic security within the EU and answered questions at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Birmingham.

Speech at PwC on Economic Security in the EU

Prime Minister David Cameron

PwC, Birmingham

5 April 2016

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Thank you. Thank you very much Ian. Thanks for that introduction. Thank you for the welcome. It's great to be back in Birmingham, great to be with you at PwC. 

And, as Ian has just said, we've got 78 days to go before the most important political decision that most of us will make in our lifetimes: whether to stay in or to leave a reformed European Union. And it is in many ways bigger than a general election. If you don't like the choice you make in a general election, you can change your mind in 5 years' time and chuck them out. Obviously that's not a bit that I particularly look forward to but nonetheless it's a very powerful part of our system. 

But this choice about Europe, it is a choice for a generation, a choice for a lifetime: do we stay in or do we go? Now I'm very clear that the best answer is to stay in. I think we are better off in; I think we're stronger in; I think we're safer in, and I want to say a word about each of those. 

Safer, because of course what really ensures our safety is our police, our intelligence service, our relationships around the world, but there's no doubt in my mind, having been your Prime Minister for 6 years, that the European Union, the work we do with our partners, the information we get about criminals, about terrorists, that helps to keep us safer. 

I believe we're stronger in as a country because of course we're the fifth biggest economy in the world. We get strength through our membership of NATO, through our membership of the Commonwealth, through our relationship with the United States of America where I was last week, but we do get strength as well by being part of the European Union. We're there, able to make decisions, whether it's putting sanctions on Iran, so they don't have a nuclear weapon or whether it is having a united front against Putin and what he's done in the Ukraine. We are stronger because we are in the European Union. 

I also think we have the best of both worlds. Our membership of European Union is not quite like anybody else's. We're in the single market but we're out of the single currency. We can work and travel all over Europe, but we maintain our borders and we don't have to let people into our country if we think they are a threat to us. So I think we have the best of both worlds and that has got better with my negotiation because I've made sure they cannot discriminate against the pound sterling, our currency. I've made sure we have targets for burden reduction. I've made sure that we'll never be part of an ever closer political union. 

But I think the most powerful case for staying in and the one I want to mention the most before answering your questions, is that we are better off; we are wealthier; we're more prosperous; we'll create more jobs; we'll create more livelihoods for people in our country if we stay in a reformed European Union. 

The European Union is effectively a market of 500 million people, and a market we can sell to without quotas, without tariffs, without taxes, without any impediment. And when you think of Britain, when you think of Birmingham, when you think of the West Midlands, we are a trading nation, we need those markets open. That is how we create jobs. Around a quarter of a million jobs here in the West Midlands are dependent on trade with Europe. 

Now of course that trade wouldn't disappear altogether if we were to leave the European Union, but what would be in its place in terms of the rules? What sort of deal would we have? And here's where I think your industries, and the industries you support, in the services sector need to think about this so carefully. Because the truth is this: services make up 80% of the British economy, 4 fifths of the British economy. And it's absolutely vital for our services industries that we have full access to that European single market. Now if we leave the EU, we therefore have to have some sort of deal with the EU to give us access. Now here's the absolutely key choice: if we went for a deal like Norway which is out of the European Union but almost a full member of the single market, you'd still have to pay into the EU, like Norway does, and accept the free movement of people from the EU, like Norway does, and yet you'd have no say over the rules that govern trade or services or standards or anything else. Now that's not a good deal. And you don't just have to take that from me; that is the view of the Norwegian Prime Minister as well. They say to us, 'Don't go for the Norway option.' 

So the alternative to that would be a free trade agreement. Now Canada has, or is about to have, the biggest free trade agreement there is with the European Union, and some of the principal proponents of Britain leaving the EU have said we should have a Canada-style deal. But here's the rub: the Canada-style deal does not have really any good provisions about services. 

Let me just give you a couple of examples. A Canadian airline can fly between Canada and a European city, but it can't fly within Europe. Well what would that mean for easyJet or for Ryanair, for companies like that, that are so vital in terms of the cheap air flights that we all enjoy? Let me give you another example. If you're a television station, if you're located in Britain, you can broadcast all the way through the European Union; not if you're a Canadian television station under the deal. Think of financial services, and you help so many financial services companies. With our arrangements, inside the single market, if you're located in Britain you can trade in any European country. If you're Canada, your financial services companies won't be able to do that. They'd have to set up in each and every European country. 

So here's the truth; if we leave the European Union, and if we have a deal like a Canada free trade deal, it will be very bad for our economy. It will be bad for jobs. It will be bad for investment. And it will be particularly bad for services industries that need those markets open. We have a brilliant manufacturing sector in Britain; it's important that we keep it going, not least with the huge success of Jaguar Land Rover not far away from here. But we're also the people that design the building, that consult on the deal, that insure the premises, that provide those vital services, those sales and other services right throughout the European Union. And I think that above all is the reason why we should reject the idea of a free trade deal and recognise we are better off inside a European Union. And that's how I hope you'll vote in 78 days' time.

Read more about Alternatives to membership: possible models for the United Kingdom outside the European Union.

But I just want to make one final point before taking your questions, because I think a lot of these arguments can always be quite dry, quite technical. They're about jobs and investment, vitally important, but there's also something else we should always think about when we consider this question of in or out. And that is it may be 78 days until that referendum, but it is also only 70 years ago that the countries of Europe were fighting each other and killing each other's citizens in huge numbers. 

And yes it's frustrating, the European Union, and I can tell you, as the person who sits round that table till often 3 or 4 in the morning, negotiating complex deals, it can be incredibly frustrating. But the fact that we talk to each other, the fact that we work with each other, the fact that we try and collaborate and cooperate to tackle the problems and issues that we face as countries is so much better than what came before and we should never forget that, whereas our continent had been wracked by war and conflict, we have found a way now to talk to each other, to work together. And that is something, when we think about this vote - which is not just for our generation but it's for our children and our grandchildren - something that I hope we'll think about.

Thank you again for the welcome. I look forward to the questions. Whatever you decide to do, please do vote in 78 days' time. People say there's a lot of issues of sovereignty at stake in this referendum. Well, this is a giant act of sovereignty. You, the British people, are going to decide: do we stay in or do we get out? I hope you vote to stay in, particularly after the negotiation I concluded, but it's your choice. I will obey the orders you give me on 23 June. Thank you very much.

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