New Partnership with the EU

George Kerevan Excerpts
Tuesday 17th January 2017

(7 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Davis Portrait Mr Davis
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Let me, at the risk of repeating myself, pick one industry and one country. The German car industry sells 800,000 cars a year to the United Kingdom, and I think it has every interest in keeping that market open.

George Kerevan Portrait George Kerevan (East Lothian) (SNP)
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The Prime Minister ended her speech this morning on a very gracious note: she said that the victors in the Brexit debate in the UK should be magnanimous towards those who lost. I put it to the Secretary of State that magnanimity means accepting that Scotland wants to stay in the single market and that the discussions from now on should at least leave the door open to that ask from Scotland.

David Davis Portrait Mr Davis
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As I said earlier, and as I have said to Mike Russell, I have not commented publicly on the report even though I have read it in detail because I want to have an open discussion about it later. That does not mean that we are going to agree on everything, but we are going to treat it with respect.