Brexit Negotiations

Lord Kilclooney Excerpts

Monday 11th December 2017 Lords Chamber

[Lord Kilclooney (CB)]

My Lords, having been through the agony of the negotiations on the Belfast agreement, I have every reason to know what the phrase “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed” means. There are two things about the border: one is the movement of people and the other is the movement of trade. Trade must obviously be retained until the next stage of the negotiations with Brussels, but in so far as the movement of persons and the reference to the common travel area are concerned, can the Minister assure me that the thousands of Irish citizens who are EU citizens and who move into the United Kingdom because they want all the benefits of being British will continue to have those benefits under the common travel area?

[Baroness Evans of Bowes Park]

The joint report sets out that the common travel area with Ireland will be maintained.