New Partnership with the EU

Callum McCaig Excerpts
Tuesday 17th January 2017

(7 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Davis Portrait Mr Davis
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We have security arrangements with other allies—America for a start—which do not run into that problem, so I would not think that that is an issue.

Callum McCaig Portrait Callum McCaig (Aberdeen South) (SNP)
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“No deal is better than a bad deal”: I am slightly perplexed by that. How could a negotiated deal possibly be worse than something that the Secretary of State refers to as a “cliff edge”? Is he really that bad at negotiation?

David Davis Portrait Mr Davis
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Another hon. Member referred to a deal in which we had to take all sorts of penalties from all sorts of European nations. That would be a bad deal.