EU Exit Negotiations Debate

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Department: Department for Exiting the European Union

John Stevenson

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EU Exit Negotiations

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Report on Recent Terrorist Attacks
Tuesday 5th December 2017

(6 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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I will break the habit of a lifetime and pay the right hon. Gentleman a compliment: he is at least standing by the manifesto on which he stood at the general election. Of course, being a Liberal Democrat manifesto, it was completely wrong.

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Will the Minister reassure me that when it comes to negotiations with the EU, the Government will pursue a flexible policy that includes the possibility of establishing a model similar to that of Norway or Switzerland, which would undoubtedly benefit the Irish issue?

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No, the Prime Minister has made it clear that we are not going to take any off-the-shelf model. We are a very large country in European terms, and we have very great trade reach—and very great reach in other respects—so we will choose a model that is appropriate to us.

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