European Council Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

European Council

David Jones Excerpts
Monday 26th March 2018

(6 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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No, it does not. Of course, the European Union will have set its particular guidelines. We are going into negotiation with it. We have already set out ways in which we can ensure that there is no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland and we will go into detailed discussion on those.

David Jones Portrait Mr David Jones (Clwyd West) (Con)
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I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the progress made thus far in the withdrawal negotiations, but can she confirm that it remains her position that no deal is better than a bad deal, and that all necessary preparations are being made for such an eventuality?

Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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Yes, I assure my right hon. Friend that we are ensuring that we are preparing for all eventualities.