Future Relationship with the EU: Negotiations Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Future Relationship with the EU: Negotiations

Nadia Whittome Excerpts
Tuesday 19th May 2020

(3 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He stands up for the people of West Bromwich and Tipton brilliantly. He and those businesses are right that we need to move to a new, precedent-based relationship.

Nadia Whittome Portrait Nadia Whittome (Nottingham East) (Lab) [V]
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Our relationship with the European Union will have significant economic effects on our country. The Minister will have done modelling of the impacts; how many people in the country will be pushed into poverty as a result of us leaving the European Union?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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As we leave the European Union, we have a saving in the amount of money that we currently remit to the EU. That money can be deployed here in the UK, on our NHS and to support the vulnerable.