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		</div><p>Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has suggested the UK should follow the example of low-tax Singapore as it forges a new position in the world after Brexit.</p>
<p>In what will be seen as a bid to burnish his credentials with Tory Brexiteers, Mr Hunt hailed the south-east Asian city state for “plugging into the international economic grid” on gaining its independence in 1965.</p>
<p>He also dismissed alternatives to Theresa May’s EU Withdrawal Agreement, denouncing the option of a second referendum as a “dereliction of duty” and warning that a no-deal Brexit “could leave us poorer”.</p>
<p>Singapore has long been touted as a model for the UK after EU withdrawal by fervent Brexiteers such as former minister Owen Paterson, who last year wrote that Britain should adopt its “low-tax, low-spend, low-regulation” policies .</p>
<p>Writing in the Mail on Sunday, Mr Hunt said Singapore had transformed itself from a “tiny territory devoid of natural resources into the world’s eighth richest country”.</p>
<p>He added: <em>“While the circumstances of Britain’s departure from the EU are different, there could be few better instructions for us as we make our post-Brexit future.”</em></p>
<p>The Foreign Secretary, who backed Remain in 2016, has emerged as a potential successor to Mrs May after shifting his position to back Brexit.</p>
<p>While acknowledging that the Prime Minister’s Withdrawal Agreement is not “perfect”, he urged fellow MPs to back it in next month’s crunch vote.</p>
<p>All other options are “fraught with danger” and would “create more problems than they solve”, he warned.</p>
<p>A second referendum would “divide the country again right at the moment when people need to come together”, said Mr Hunt.</p>
<p>And warning against the no-deal option favored by some Leave-backing MPs, he said: <em>“No-one should be encouraging a move that could leave us poorer at the same time as gladdening the hearts of those who wish for a fractured Europe.”</em></p>
<p>Mr Hunt’s comments sparked a backlash from supporters of a second referendum, who warned the Singapore model would mean turning the UK into “a bargain basement for business”.</p>
<p>Best for Britain spokesman Paul Butters said: <em>“The Foreign Secretary wants to turn this country into a low-tax haven for business. Nothing would help the elite out more, while stealing from the public purse vital funds for key services and damaging worker’s rights.</em></p>
<p><em>“Jeremy Hunt is frustrating the will of the people when he says things like this. No one voted for big business to rule over us.</em></p>
<p><em>“The public need the final say on Brexit to stop Jeremy Hunt turning Britain into a bargain basement for business.”</em></p>
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