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Helen Goodman Excerpts
Monday 11th June 2018

(5 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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My hon. Friend makes a very important point, which is that we as politicians stand and talk about the values that we share, but it is our servicemen and women who actually put their lives on the line to defend those values. It is incumbent on us all to ensure that we are doing them the service of working together to maintain that rules-based international order.

Helen Goodman Portrait Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland) (Lab)
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The Prime Minister has said that the WTO needs reform, and she also said earlier that we were in the lead on climate change and the environment. Will she look at integrating these two institutional networks so that we do not have trade deals that cut across our environmental objectives?

Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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I am not sure that integrating the two institutional structures that deal with those is the right way forward, but there are of course examples around the world where trade deals do indeed incorporate environmental standards.