CPTPP: Conclusion of Negotiations

Debate between Bill Wiggin and Kemi Badenoch

Monday 17th April 2023 Commons Chamber

[Sir Bill Wiggin (North Herefordshire) (Con)]

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on this excellent deal and thank her for the care and consideration she has shown towards our farming community in her comments. Does this deal not put us in a much stronger position for future trade agreements with countries that we want to do business with, including perhaps even the United States?

[Kemi Badenoch]

My hon. Friend is quite right that the standards we are setting here show the roadmap for what the UK is interested in and willing to do, particularly on services, which is quite novel for many of the old free trade agreements out there.