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HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsWith your permission, Mr Speaker, I shall make a statement on the Government’s proposals for a new agreement with our European friends that would honour the result of the…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsAll those freedoms would continue, and I can reassure the hon. Lady that, as I have said many times, there will be no checks, for our part, on goods coming from the EU—that is to…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsI must confess that I am disappointed by the tone and some of the remarks that the right hon. Gentleman has made, because I think that this is a very good basis for a deal. To…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsI am grateful to my hon. Friend. The Opposition have many times—at least several times—rejected the invitation to have a general election, for reasons that I think will be…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsAgain, I must say I am slightly disappointed by the tone the right hon. Gentleman has taken. I would remind him that the people of Scotland voted to remain in the UK and in the UK…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsI am grateful to my right hon. Friend, who has taken a keen interest in these matters for a long time and has helped to bring many Members together across the House on this…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsI, of course, understand the concerns of people on both sides of the Northern Irish border and indeed across this country. That is why we are absolutely determined not to have any…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsYes, it does indeed. I thank my right hon. Friend for his point. He is right also in his ambition for what we can do with this deal because it does liberate us to do free trade…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsThe right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to lay the emphasis he does on the Good Friday agreement and the peace process. In all our conversations, we are driven by the need to…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsI am not sure I was expecting support from the right hon. Lady, but I had hoped that she would see the advantages of our proposal. I think that it offers a way forward for the UK,…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I cannot account for the unaccountable—I cannot account for the Leader of the Opposition’s change of mind on the EU, except that, as I observed…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsThe most important thing is that we will abide by every clause and principle of the Good Friday agreement. Above all, there will be no border—there will be no hard border at…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsMy right hon. Friend is correct in his surmise about our intentions, but I think that the House and people watching the debate should be reminded that what the UK has done is…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsThe right hon. Lady is in error if she thinks that that is our intention. We will be ensuring that this country has the highest standards for workers’ rights and for environmental…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsI thoroughly agree with my right hon. Friend, and I hope that all colleagues in all parts of the House will think very carefully about the terms of the deal that we are setting…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsI do not wish to be unnecessarily adversarial today, but that seems a satirical thing for the right hon. Gentleman to say, given that his party is refusing to concede to a general…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsMy right hon. Friend has a wealth of experience in this regard, and he did a huge amount of good both for Northern Ireland and in the cause of trying to get Stormont up and…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, and I hope that he speaks for many colleagues across the House in wanting to move this thing forward. I will reflect on what he has said…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsThe answer to both questions is in the affirmative. I want to thank my right hon. Friend for his constructive attitude to this, and if there are any more details that he needs to…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsI am grateful to my right hon. Friend. Of course, what this offer does is take one step further, by consent, in having regulatory alignment for goods as well, so obviating the…03 Oct 2019