RUSHES: Boris Johnson speech at Global Soft Power Summit

Boris Johnson speech at Global Soft Power Summit; Part 7 of 14 ENGLAND: London: INT Boris Johnson MP (Former Prime Minister) speech SOT. - We should think not about raising corporation tax, but cutting corporation tax to Irish levels all lower, and really turbocharging investment to drive levelling up across the whole country, really showing the world what they wanted to see from 2016 onwards. That we are different now because this is a Brexit government or this is nothing. And it is because this is a Brexit government that we got the biggest share of the vote since 1979. Let me give you just some examples of the ways divergence has helped us so far. Yes, it really is the case that it made a difference that we were out of the European Medicines Agency, and therefore able to get the first licensed vaccine into the arms of any patient anywhere in the world. And that meant we had the fastest vaccine rollout, and that meant we were able to come out of lockdown faster than the rest of Europe. And we stage therefore the fastest economic recovery in the G7. And we have today, in spite of all the difficulties, the lowest unemployment since about 1974. And we will fix our problems. We will fix inflation and no doubt that the government will be successful in what they're doing in getting inflation down. And that was because we dared that success with vaccines was because we dared to be different and we dared to be different on orcas, which the, I don't believe the foreign office would ever have allowed when we were still in the EU.