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UK Internal Market: White Paper

Debate between Alok Sharma and Matt Vickers
Thursday 16th July 2020

(3 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alok Sharma Portrait Alok Sharma
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I say respectfully to the hon. Lady that she needs to move on. The British people decided that we were leaving the European Union in 2016 and we are implementing that vote.

Matt Vickers Portrait Matt Vickers (Stockton South) (Con)
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Scotland sells more to the rest of the UK than it does to the entire rest of the world put together. Does my right hon. Friend agree that preserving the UK’s internal market is vital to protecting jobs, businesses and livelihoods in all four nations of the UK?

Alok Sharma Portrait Alok Sharma
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I could not agree more. Modelling shows that Scotland would suffer a GDP loss of four times higher than the UK as a whole from unmitigated differences in regulations.

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