Iran Nuclear Deal

Geraint Davies Excerpts
Wednesday 9th May 2018

(5 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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We are of course working hand-in-glove with the United States, but we do believe that there were advantages in maintaining the discrete deal at the heart of the JCPOA and stopping Iranian breakout. We thought that was a good idea. We certainly share the general ambition across the House to constrain Iran’s malignant activity.

Geraint Davies Portrait Geraint Davies (Swansea West) (Lab/Co-op)
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France, Germany and the United Kingdom have stood shoulder to shoulder in supporting the nuclear peace deal, and the US has walked away. Does that not show that it is not the customs union that is crazy, but the idea that we can instead have a trade deal with the United States that we think will put mutual interests before Trump’s and the US’s self-interest?

Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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I am sure that in due course we will get a great trade deal with the United States, so I am not quite sure what that has to do with the JCPOA.