EU Exit Negotiations

Debate between David Davis and Hywel Williams

Tuesday 5th September 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davis]

Yes. One can reasonably expect some Labour Members to have different views, but for the deputy leader of the party to have a different view is really rather dramatic. The Labour party should do as my hon. Friend suggests.

[Hywel Williams (Arfon) (PC)]

When will the Joint Ministerial Committee on EU Negotiations next meet?

[Mr Davis]

That is strictly a matter for the First Secretary. It has partly been delayed by the non-formation of a Northern Ireland Executive, and we will have to find other methods. My intention before the election had been to go, in the absence of the Northern Ireland Executive, to a series of bilateral arrangements in the meantime. That is why yesterday I called up the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government to brief them on the detail of the negotiation.