EU Exit: Future Relationship White Paper

Debate between Lord Callanan and Lord Skelmersdale

Thursday 12th July 2018 Lords Chamber

[Lord Callanan]

We want a deep and ambitious partnership on financial services. I set out earlier exactly how we see it working. We think that is in the interests of both parties, but it is impossible to put a cost on or indeed outline the benefits of anything until we have agreed it.

[Lord Skelmersdale (Con)]

Would my noble friend be good enough to accept that trade is like Gaul—divided into three parts? You have direct trade between, say, India and the United Kingdom, trade between the EU and the United Kingdom, and re-export. All those will need different solutions, unlike the ideas put forward by the two parties opposite.

[Lord Callanan]

My noble friend makes a good point, which is why we need to try to reach agreement with the EU using our new customs model, which we believe will be a good solution.

Brexit: EU Citizenship

Debate between Lord Callanan and Lord Skelmersdale

Monday 11th December 2017 Lords Chamber

[Lord Callanan]

The noble Lord makes an important point, but it is not that helpful to look back over what might have happened in the past: best now to celebrate the excellent achievements that we have gained in reaching agreements last week, whereby EU citizens in the UK will have their rights guaranteed and vice versa.

[Lord Skelmersdale (Con)]

My Lords, may I take my noble friend back to his original Answer, which presumably means that passports will be required? Have Her Majesty’s Government decided whether that is so; secondly, whether a new one will be required; and, thirdly, whether it will be charged for?

[Lord Callanan]

I think the noble Lord will have to wait for the Home Office’s proposals on a new immigration system for an answer to that question.