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Department: Cabinet Office

European Council

David Duguid Excerpts
Monday 26th March 2018

(6 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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Obviously there is an ongoing police investigation into that individual’s death, and we await its result.

David Duguid Portrait David Duguid (Banff and Buchan) (Con)
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Following on from the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries and Galloway (Mr Jack), does my right hon. Friend agree that any free trade agreement linked to a specific industry such as fishing would constitute not only something that fishing communities could not accept, but cherry-picking?

Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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As I said in response to my hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries and Galloway (Mr Jack), I am aware of how the fishing industry felt it was treated when the UK entered the then Common Market. I am also very clear that as we leave the EU, we need not only to uphold the interests of the fishing industry but, as I have said to other hon. Friends, to give it an opportunity to rebuild and be enhanced.