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David Warburton

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Points of Order
Tuesday 26th June 2018

(5 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Harriett Baldwin Portrait The Minister for Africa (Harriett Baldwin)
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I am aware of that report, and I travelled to Cameroon earlier this year to encourage its Government, in this election year, to engage in dialogue and try to resolve some of the differences with the anglophone separatist movement through democracy and observing human rights.

David Warburton Portrait David Warburton (Somerton and Frome) (Con)
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T3. Does my right hon. Friend agree that global Britain means that post-Brexit the UK can negotiate trade deals and strengthen relationships with countries such as those in South America, with which we have perhaps not had the closest relationship in the past?

Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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My hon. Friend is exactly right about that. I was thrilled to be the first Foreign Secretary to go to Peru for 52 years, and the first to go to Argentina and to Chile for 25 years. We will find Governments and populations there who are immensely anglophile and yearning to do free trade deals.

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