US Immigration Policy

Alan Brown Excerpts
Monday 30th January 2017

(7 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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I do not comment on confidential conversations between the Prime Minister and the US President, but I can tell the House that as soon as we had a full understanding of the measure that the US had brought in, we decided to intercede to get the protections that we needed.

Alan Brown Portrait Alan Brown (Kilmarnock and Loudoun) (SNP)
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So when the Prime Minister visited the United States and Trump held her hand, did he whisper sweet nothings or did he tell her what his intentions were? Will the Foreign Secretary remind the Prime Minister that

“no deal is better than a bad deal”?

Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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I am afraid that I could not quite make out the earlier part of the hon. Gentleman’s question, but I totally agree with the last bit.