Future Free Trade Agreements

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Richard Bacon

Thursday 21st February 2019 Commons Chamber

[Mr Fysh]

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker.

[Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk) (Con)]

I want to point out that my hon. Friend is not the only one left on the Government Benches, although I really came to listen—

[Mr Deputy Speaker]

Order. May I just say that there are no more Government Members on my list, which includes people who were here at the beginning, but we will have interventions.

[Mr Bacon]

I really came to listen to my hon. Friend, because it is such a privilege to listen to a genuine expert on this subject. He has forgotten more about it than most people know. I am just wondering how he accounts for the fact that we have had palpably inaccurate statements from Ministers. Is it possibly because our esteemed Under-Secretary of State for International Trade, my hon. Friend the Member for Beverley and Holderness (Graham Stuart), was not involved in making those statements?