Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Eleanor Smith and Greg Clark

Tuesday 17th July 2018 Commons Chamber

[Greg Clark]

The hon. Lady is wrong. All the organisations she mentioned have given the White Paper and the Chequers proposals a warm welcome. In the Prime Minister’s Mansion House speech, we committed to minimising frictions at the border. The proposal now is to have zero friction at the border. That is strongly in the interests of business and allows our successful supply chains to continue to prosper. We need the Opposition to recognise the national interest in having a good deal. Almost everyone in the country wants a good deal negotiated between Britain and the EU. Rather than edging for difference and trying to make political points, she should get behind this excellent suggestion for the country.

[Eleanor Smith (Wolverhampton South West) (Lab)]

18. What steps he is taking to ensure that employment law protects and supports self-employed workers.