Leaving the EU: Fisheries Management

Diana Johnson Excerpts
Tuesday 20th March 2018

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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I can give an absolute guarantee that under no circumstances will I ever adopt the craven and abject surrender that the Scottish Government would offer the EU by accepting that the CFP should persist ad infinitum.

Diana Johnson Portrait Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North) (Lab)
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The future of the fishing industry is a politically sensitive issue in Hull—UKIP has talked about a fishing fleet being re-established there—but was not one of the main promises made to the people of Hull that we would retain our territorial rights around fishing from day one, and has that promise not been broken?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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No, we will. When the implementation period ends, the exclusive economic zone that is ours to police and control will be ours to police and control.