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HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsIn due course, the text will of course be made available to right hon. and hon. Members, although this is a negotiation and you will appreciate, Mr Speaker, that we have to hold…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsI am not sure that referendums have a great history in our country recently of bringing people together. I appreciate the right hon. Gentleman’s experience and the sincerity with…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsI thank my hon. Friend, for whom I have a high regard. I well remember our conversation a few weeks ago. He makes his point with great clarity and force. Those who oppose a…03 Oct 2019HANSARD 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 thank my right hon. Friend, and if I may say so, I think he speaks with the voice of common sense and pragmatic understanding of the realities that obtain, but also the right…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsI reject the suggestion that what we are doing is not in conformity with the Good Friday agreement; indeed, it is intended to build on the Good Friday agreement. If it would help…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsI should remind the hon. Gentleman that there has been a fiscal border between the UK and Ireland for many years. Customs checks do not mean customs posts or infrastructure of any…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 congratulate my hon. Friend because it was after all his amendment that went to the heart of what I think the House saw as the fundamental problem with the previous withdrawal…03 Oct 2019HANSARD Brexit NegotiationsObviously, what we are proposing is to bring powers over UK fish back to the people of Scotland. It is quite astonishing that the SNP continue to shrug off and to refuse the…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 2019