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HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesWe are supposed to be temperate in our language, but, quite frankly, that is a load of rubbish. That is not our intention, and if our constituents are worried and scared as a…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesI thank my hon. Friend for raising that point. Now is the time for a deal, but the way that the House has behaved has made a deal less likely and made it more likely that we will…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesThe legal text will come forward at the right time. The hon. Gentleman is critical of Tory Members for supporting the Prime Minister before seeing all the detail, but I would not…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesI thank my right hon. Friend for that question. Clearly, he has been talking to business groups in his constituency. Businesses certainly do want certainty, and whether it is…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesI thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for those comments. Last week, I was able to tell the House that proposals would be tabled to the EU by the end of the week. Not only…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesThe whole idea of Brexit is to reposition the economy not only of Northern Ireland but of the whole United Kingdom around the growth areas of the world. That is not to say that we…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesWe are unconditionally committed to finding a solution for the north-south border that protects the Belfast/Good Friday agreement and the commitments that can best be met if we…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesWork is going on in Northern Ireland at a number of levels. I have been involved more at a business level, looking at the detail of the arrangements. The Secretary of State for…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesAs a matter of course, the Government do not share the legal advice they receive, nor do they confirm or deny whether they have sought legal advice. That is standard practice not…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesThere will be the point of exit on 31 October; a future economic partnership and a final relationship; and the consent point for the Northern Ireland Assembly to review the issue.…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesYes, entirely.07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesThe hon. Gentleman refers to one border. There are many borders around the world. Technologies can be used to avoid a hard border, and this Government are committed to having no…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesI heard the hon. Gentleman in the questions to the Prime Minister. I have not discussed this issue with the Prime Minister since then, so unfortunately I cannot update him, but I…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesBecause they have already voted for Brexit.07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesI see all the papers I need to, but I will not go through them, on a paper by paper basis, saying which version I have seen and when I have seen it. I simply will not do that; it…07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesNo, it is not.07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesJust to be clear, we will leave on the 31st and we are prepared to leave on the 31st—that adds information, rather than detracts—and we will abide by the Court decision.07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesI thank my hon. Friend for that information, and I had not quite linked the two together. Perhaps we should call it not the Prime Minister’s proposal, but the Barnier solution.07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesWe will continue food and environmental standards. I have made that clear, and I will pass on the hon. Lady’s comments to the Prime Minister with pleasure.07 Oct 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Proposed ChangesIt is certainly time to get on with it. I think that there are a significant number of Opposition Members who have more open minds than those on the Labour Front Bench, and we…07 Oct 2019