Clive Efford
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(5 years, 4 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
If I was bottling it, I would not have come to the Chamber and been on my feet for nearly two and a half hours answering questions.
Clive Efford (Eltham) (Lab)
The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is quoted today as saying:
“We have already offered a lot of concessions...We ended up with the backstop because of all the red lines the UK laid down”.
EU leaders know that we have the backstop designed by the Prime Minister. Exactly what is she going to renegotiate?
The Prime Minister
This is not a backstop designed by the United Kingdom. The one aspect of this backstop that was required by the United Kingdom was that the customs territory was UK-wide and that we did not see a Northern Ireland customs territory, which was what the EU wanted. We stood up against it, and we delivered.