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Lord Spicer

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Brexit: Non-chemical Farming Methods
Monday 6th November 2017

(6 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan
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Yes. It is in our interests for the EU to do well and to succeed, but obviously it would be wrong of us to try to influence where its members might want to take the organisation in the future when we are no longer a member.

Lord Spicer Portrait Lord Spicer (Con)
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My Lords, under Article 50, we will leave the European Union on 29 March 2019. Does my noble friend share my worry that sometimes, the noble Lord, Lord Dykes, tends to have a temporary lapse of memory about that?

Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan
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I am sure that the noble Lord noticed that we had a referendum on the subject.

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