Jonathan Edwards
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Tuesday 18th April 2017
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Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) (PC)
In calling a snap election, do the British Government seriously take the view that a UK election will really change the EU 27 negotiating position? If so, are they not guilty of living in a land of fantasy?
Mr Lidington
It will be important that the newly elected leaders in France and Germany will meet a newly re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, all of them with the confidence that they have mandates from their voters as they approach those negotiations in a constructive spirit.