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HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementI am afraid the hon. Lady has totally misread or misunderstood the provisions in the agreement. It is stated plainly in the political declaration that we will maintain the highest…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementI am afraid there is a complete conceptual confusion here. Scotland, Northern Ireland—the whole of the UK is coming out of the customs union. Particular arrangements are being put…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementMy right hon. Friend is completely correct in what he says. I think it is a feeling that is well known to Members on the other side of the House and well known on our Benches as…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementI thank my right hon. Friend for her point. She is absolutely right: this is the moment for Parliament and people to yoke arms, come together, and get this thing done. That is…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementDiolch yn fawr, Mr Speaker. I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who speaks for Wales, as ever. It is a great deal for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementIt seems to me that the right hon. Lady may conceivably have made up her mind about the 535 pages that she has in her hand before she scrutinised every word of the text. I am a…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementThe right hon. Gentleman, for whom I have a high regard, is, I think, one of those who believes that we should delay further in the EU. I do not believe that. I think we should…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementThere are not any tariffs on goods, as the right hon. Gentleman knows full well, going GB-NI or NI-GB.19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementI can certainly give that commitment.19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementLet me first say that I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman in this sense: together he and I, and the rest of his group, made a case powerfully to the EU that it was necessary…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementI am full of respect for the contributions that my right hon. Friend has made on this subject over many, many years. I did not mean in any way to exclude him or to say that he had…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementThere was a lot enthusiasm in that response. The right hon. Gentleman was a little bit churlish in his response to my statement, because after all I did not mention England and I…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementI am making a valid point, which is that in Brussels my right hon. and learned Friend’s message has not really been perfectly understood, because they are continuing with a large…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementI am sure the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues will want to join me in congratulating the England rugby team on their 40-16 victory over Australia—19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementI wish to agree with at least part of my right hon. and learned Friend’s analysis, because he says that there is scepticism across the continent about federalism and the desire to…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementMr Speaker, I am grateful. No one believes in lowering standards. Instead, we believe in improving them, as indeed we will be able to do, and seizing the opportunities of our new…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementI respectfully point out to the hon. Lady that the deal has been welcomed by a broad range of opinion, including the Governor of the Bank of England and the CBI. The choice for…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementOf course, and I am grateful to the hon. Lady. I wish to reassure her that I make an absolute commitment to the constitutional status of Northern Ireland, which is inviolable and…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right: it is time that this country moved on. I may say that the best way in which he could show his support tonight for this deal would be…19 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementThe hon. Lady will know that the provisions on workers’ rights and environmental protections in the political decision are very ambitious. We want to maintain the highest possible…19 Oct 2019