Brexit: World Trade Organization

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering Excerpts

Wednesday 11th October 2017 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Sugg]

I am quite happy with my brief but if there is anything specific which I have not answered then I will write to the noble Lord.

[Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con)]

I commend my noble friend on her command of her brief on what is probably her first outing. Is it not of the utmost importance that the department clarifies what our status is with the World Trade Organization if there is any possibility at all, as the Prime Minister raised yesterday, of us leaving the European Union without a deal and without a transition period, so that we can then proceed to do those negotiations, as my noble friend has set out so clearly today?