Leaving the EU: Airbus Risk Assessment Debate
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(6 years, 5 months ago)
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Order. We have very little time left for this, I am afraid, so we will need short questions and short answers.
Apparently it was at a Foreign Office reception in honour of the Queen’s birthday that the Foreign Secretary applied his four-letter expletive to the concerns of Airbus and business about leaving the single market. I can think of a few suggestions myself, but what four-letter word comes to mind for the Secretary of State when he thinks about the Foreign Secretary?
For all of us, it is “jobs” that we want to secure from our negotiations—good jobs—and we are determined to do so.