Prime Minister’s Statement Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Prime Minister’s Statement

Gregory Campbell Excerpts
Saturday 19th October 2019

(4 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Dodds of Duncairn Portrait Nigel Dodds
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indicated assent.

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I see my distinguished friends in the Democratic Unionist party accepting this good news, as is their customary way. There are many advantages to be had. On the point made by the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey), yes, there is the prospect of a free trade agreement between us and the EU, under which these arrangements would eventually be superseded. We would enter into free trade, as the right hon. and learned Father of the House indicated—a zero-tariff, zero-quota arrangement—and then the current arrangements would be obviated.