Baroness Smith of Newnham
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(7 years, 6 months ago)
Lords ChamberI am telling you she is influential because you are asking me.
My Lords, is not the point of a negotiation or a package of negotiations of the sort we will see with withdrawal that we will start the negotiations but nothing will be agreed until everything is agreed? Is not the danger of looking at reciprocal agreements on the rights of EU and UK citizens that nothing will be decided until the day we leave the European Union, which will be far too late to give certainty to EU nationals currently resident in the United Kingdom—something that we could do unilaterally?
I can only repeat what I have said in answer to all the questions on this, which is that we are looking for an early agreement.