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HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who serves with me on the International Trade Committee, for giving way. He has clearly laid out his opposition to the backstop for various…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsThe hon. Gentleman talks about improvement. I just wonder what he means by that. Does he mean expansion and growth? When he talked about having 23,000 sheep, with 50,000 after…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsI hesitate to intervene to make a discordant point, because the hon. Gentleman was being generous. However, on balance I think I should say that if we have a customs union only…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsI have a philosophical question. There are two schools of thought regarding what is to blame for the Honda situation. It is either Brexit and the anticipation of trouble at the…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsLet me provide a little extra scrutiny. The Secretary of State has talked a lot about trade policy and trade agreements, but these are very different from trade; trade is a…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsIs the right hon. Gentleman seriously saying that the Treasury’s suggestion that getting out of the European Union and the single market will hit the UK economy by 6% to 8% is not…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsThe Secretary of State has given us a good rundown of eastern growth metrics. This is why the EU is making the free trade deals with Japan and Korea that we are worried we are…21 Feb 2019HANSARD Future Free Trade AgreementsWill the hon. Gentleman give way?21 Feb 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseMay I just say—I learned this from the late Paul Flynn—nice tie, Mr Speaker? It is indeed one of the best. Paul once told me that he was named after the German soldier who spared…21 Feb 2019HANSARDBusiness of the HouseHear, hear!14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUWill the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUThe Prime Minister met hon. Members in the Boothroyd Room before the first vote, which she lost by 230, and said that if her deal was not accepted, it was either no deal or no…14 Feb 2019HANSARDBusiness of the HouseWill the Leader of the House get a grip on the Government Whips Office and put a rocket right up them? They are playing games with an important private Member’s Bill on refugee…14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUWill the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUIs not the thing this House has to understand that the backstop is there in case the Malthouse compromise turns into the Malthouse fantasy—if all the technologies are…14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUWill the right hon. Lady give way?14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUJust a slight nuance on the earlier debate. The European Union is not so rude as to say that it has rejected this, but it is saying, “If your fantasies don’t come through, let us…14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUI just want to pull up the hon. Gentleman on that point. He said that Europe was in relative decline and produced a statistic. Europe is not in decline. It is just that other…14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUWell, 43 days to go and here we are—still pretty clueless in the House of Commons. When people ask what is going to happen, nobody really knows. I did hope to bring this to an end…14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUThe hon. Gentleman should know that we have a deal at the moment with the European Union. It is a good deal, and any other deals we have with the European Union that involve us…14 Feb 2019