EU Exit Negotiations Debate

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Craig Mackinlay

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EU Exit Negotiations

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Tax Avoidance and Evasion
Monday 13th November 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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My hon. Friend is entirely right. It is a meaningful vote, but not meaningful in the sense that some believe—that the decision can be reversed. That is not available to us.

Craig Mackinlay Portrait Craig Mackinlay (South Thanet) (Con)
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I too met Monsieur Barnier in Brussels last week. I am sorry if I left him for the Secretary of State in anything like a bad mood. I perceive my right hon. Friend’s approach to be fair and reasonable, giving ground where necessary, but this is feeling a little like a one-way street. Does my right hon. Friend share my view that this unreasonable intransigence is becoming as wearing on him as it is on the British electorate?

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