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HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillNo sale, then?06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman: if people are not paying attention in their offices or wherever, what he says is a very gentle reminder to the Government and to Government…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillAs my hon. Friend mentions whisky, it would be remiss of me not to take the opportunity to stand up. It should be noted that one of the things we highlighted was that Australia…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillPerhaps the right hon. Member for Warley (John Spellar) misunderstands the idea of free trade. None of it is free; it is just that there are various degrees of restriction. How…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillThe data that my hon. Friend has just read out helps to make a point. Although those two deals are both described as free trade agreements, anybody can see from those bits of data…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillIt is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Mole Valley (Sir Paul Beresford). Despite my attempts to be a second-hand car salesman and flog a 1954 Morris Minor, the real…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI thank my colleague very much for that. I was reminded of something by what the hon. Member for Mole Valley said about the size of farming in New Zealand and the Scots exiles. I…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI hear exactly what the right hon. Gentleman says, and he is right to an extent. However, let us suppose I were to give him £1 this year and £1.50 next year, and ask him how his…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillThe hon. Gentleman is a very fine member of my Committee, if not the finest, bearing in mind that there are at least two fine members in front of me. He is right that the…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillAbsolutely. This is the tension that there has always been in trade policy over the years—do you abandon your countryside and rural places? I use stark words deliberately, but it…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI will make a little progress and then come back to the right hon. Gentleman. The point I was making earlier was that the UK now finds itself in the position of being outside the…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI can kind of see a bit of what the right hon. Gentleman says. For example, perhaps we should not have to stick ear tags on lambs before sending them to market. At one time, we…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillHaving mentioned the hon. Gentleman, I will certainly give way to him.06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. In Scotland “jags” means something that goes into your arm, usually against covid—I think they are called jabs down here—but I think he means…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillThat is fantastic news, and it has happened before the free trade agreement. That just goes to show that the fantastic people of Northern Ireland do not need Westminster to give…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillReflecting on the big dairy production we saw in the desert, did the hon. Gentleman not get the feeling that that was born of Saudi Arabia’s blockade of Qatar, and that Qatar…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way to me again. You, Mr Deputy Speaker, may remember from your time as an august and esteemed member of the International Trade…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillOr a unit of electricity.06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillDoes the right hon. Member agree that the trade pursued by the European Union with Australia and New Zealand, which will see economic growth, has on the face of it been done with…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Trade (Australia and New Zealand) BillThe right hon. Gentleman makes a great point. Australian wine producers have argued that Treasury banding undermines the spirit of the agreement. To those who are exporting to…06 Sept 2022