UK-EU Negotiations

Baroness Laing of Elderslie Excerpts

Tuesday 16th June 2020 Commons Chamber

[Chris Bryant]

You are not winning here.

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Eleanor Laing)]

Order. That is not fair.

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[Michael Gove]

I and the Paymaster General have enjoyed long conversations with representatives of the Scottish Government. Mike Russell and other Ministers, including Fergus Ewing, are always a pleasure to engage with. They bring a wealth of experience and a light touch to our conversations, which I always enjoy, appreciate, am better informed by and benefit from. The real threat to jobs in Scotland would be a reckless decision to smash the United Kingdom after 300 years of shared prosperity.

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Eleanor Laing)]

We cannot see Robert Halfon, but we can hear him.

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[Several hon. Members rose—]

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Eleanor Laing)]

If hon. Members wish to be kind to their colleagues, I implore them to ask short questions, so the Minister can also give short answers. That way, everyone who has the opportunity to speak will be able to do so. If not, some people will be left out, which is not fair.

[Nigel Mills (Amber Valley) (Con)]

The last round of talks finished with Michel Barnier waving around the declaration from last year. Does the Minister agree that he should wave it towards EU leaders and ask them to refine his mandate so that he has more chance of making a deal on state aid and fishing?