The leader of the House of Commons, Chris Grayling, spoke exclusively to the BFP this weekend while campaigning with High Wycombe's MP, Steve Baker, ahead of June's EU referendum.

Below are some of the key arguments outlined by Mr Grayling:

Small businesses:

“The thing about Wycombe is it is a great town it has a whole raft of small businesses and the thing about small businesses is they are the ones that are affected by European regulation.

“The extra cost, the extra paraphernalia and businesses owners spend their Sunday nights doing extra bureaucratic work which is no benefit to their operations at all.

“So a vast number of small businesses are affected by something they have no control over and no involvement over and that makes a real difference to them.”

Trade:

“We buy more from them (Europe) than they buy from us so it is not in their commercial interest to take any steps that would damage their businesses and cost jobs in France and elsewhere.

“Before the campaign started, Lord Stuart Rose former chairman of Marks and Spencer who is leading the leave campaign, said if we leave we will notice very little difference.

“He was not saying there was going to be a recession immediately afterwards, he was saying that it will be a smooth transition. I think we should listen to his views before the campaign started.”

Immigration:

“The other thing for Wycombe is I don’t believe we can carry on the situation where we have unlimited migration in to this country.

“It puts huge pressure on the health service – I used to do a programme on Wycombe Hospital radio – and the more people that come and live here the more pressure it puts on the services and having a situation where we have no ability to set limits on the number of people that live in Wycombe.

“It just puts more and more pressure on local services, health services and housing and it’s going to mean that we lose more greenbelt land across High Wycombe as we struggle to keep up with the people coming in to the UK.”

Steve Baker on Farming:

“We have all said it is perfectly plain that subsidies will have to continue for farming at the same rate if we weren’t paying the money to the EU.

“Following the Common Agricultural Policy we would have a better ability to target subsidies to farming in a way that suited British system and British environment.

“Things have got to change but after we leave nothing has to be different immediately and subsidies would continue for farmers because obviously we have to make sure we have food security and a flourishing agricultural market.”