Brexit: Financial Settlement Debate
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Lord Hamilton of Epsom
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Brexit: Financial Settlement
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Lord Callanan
At the risk of repeating myself, I said we will honour our legal commitments, but it is a complicated legal area. There are some great legal brains in this House who would, no doubt, want to opine on the matter, but there are different opinions. Ultimately, I suspect this will come down to a matter of politics. We do not want to get into a dispute on these matters and so we have negotiated a settlement. It is hugely complicated, there are a number of different financial areas involved, but we remain confident that we will reach a withdrawal agreement and meet those commitments.
Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Con)
Can my noble friend confirm that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, and that includes the financial settlement?
Lord Callanan
Yes, that applies to us. It also applies to the European Union.