Dominic Raab says people should wait 10 years before judging Brexit problems

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Unspecified opportunities to be created by Brexit in the future will more than make up for problems it is causing businesses now, Dominic Raab has said. Speaking on Sunday the foreign secretary urged businesses to take a "10-year view" to the troubles currently unfolding on the Irish Sea border and elsewhere. And he appeared to blame Brussels for the new Brexit bureaucracy, accusing the EU of imposing new obstacles to trade. Follow Brexit live: Liz Truss ‘refusing to answer trade questions’ as Labour warns of high street crisis “I think if you take a 10-year view, as well as looking at the short-term risk, which is right to do, actually the growth opportunities in the future are going to come from emerging and developing economies around the world.” Asked whether this meant businesses should do less trade with the EU and more elsewhere, the staunch Brexiteer said: Recommended DUP members threaten to bring down Northern Ireland government if Brexit deal is not scrapped “I wouldn’t put it quite in those terms, but it’s certainly right to say that we want to bank, if you like, the baseline of our European trade – it’s very important to us, and they are obviously our neighbours – but if you look at the opportunities for growth in the future for UK companies … the growth economies are going to come from the Indo-Pacific region.” He said it was the government's aim to “reduce and mitigate as far as we can the bureaucratic obstacles that the EU is imposing".