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Britain has had some important benefits from being part of the EU including trading partners and exports, the Labour MP said in today's Express EU debate. Panelists from both the Remain
and Leave camps set out their arguments in a head to head battle at the central London offices. Labour's Chuka Umunna told the audience that a vote to leave would not stop trade with
EU countries as some had claimed, but said it would make things harder to come by and more expensive. He said: "I am not arguing that if we left the EU we would not be able to trade at
all." The MP explained that under World Trade organisation rules, Britain would be forced to pay a 10 per cent tariff on cars produced abroad if the UK voted to leave. Umunna also added
that 28 per cent of the UK's produce comes from Europe - and the cost of basic food items such as fruit and vegetables could go up if the country left the EU. Adding that 44 per cent
of British exports go to EU customers, he said: "The EU is a far bigger and important customer than we are to each of the other member states. They are a huge customer. "If you
look at the 27 other states 5 per cent of their exports come to us from each of them. We are much less important to them as they are to us." He also said David Cameron had got some
"important things" from his negotiations, but he "never said it was groundbreaking". Richard Reed meanwhile - who also said the UK would never get a better deal - told
the audience he had asked 222 high growth entrepreneurs what they thought of a Brexit, and said only 12 said they didn't know or did not want to answer while all the rest voted to say
in. But UKIP leader Nigel Farage objected to the comments, shouting "impossible", as Mr Rees-Mogg also criticised the validity of the survey. Reed added: "We have data and
evidence but you make great emotional arguments with no logic and data. "Theres no logic, no data and no evidence." Mr Reed also told viewers: "Let's take the most common
sense argument. The EU is the biggest market in the world. "If you go to that biggest customer in the world and poke it in the eye how is that going to improve matters? I
"I'm not saying it will be a disaster but how is it going to help. EXPRESS DEBATE: CHUKA UMUNNA PROFILE "We are asking for a divorce. You negotiate wealth but you are
definitely going to be poorer. "It will be a little less good or a lot less good. We don't want to p*** on our own chips." But Nigel Farage, who has put a bet on Brexit,
Britain in fact does not have any influence over EU policies. He claimed that the last 40 occasions when the British government has gone to Brussels to oppose a bill, and on all 40 the
opposition had been ignored. EXPRESS Panelists descussed the economy at the EU debate A further 30 incidents before that when Gordon Brown was in charge were also lost. He said: "Our
influence is not that significant." Ukip leader Nigel Farage, Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg and Labour's Kate Hoey are making the case for the Brexit vote. They face Labour MPs Chuka
Umunna and Siobhain McDonagh, as well as Innocent Smoothies co-founder Richard Reed - who chairs the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign.