Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Gill Furniss and Kwasi Kwarteng

Thursday 16th May 2019 Commons Chamber

[Kwasi Kwarteng]

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State was in Scotland last week, and the opinion there is very divided on this issue, as it is in the rest of the United Kingdom. The hon. Gentleman will appreciate, as a democrat, that the vote in 2016 was a national vote—a United Kingdom vote—and we are pledged to respect the majority result, which was to leave the European Union.

[Gill Furniss (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) (Lab)]

4. What recent assessment the Government have made of the economic effect of the UK leaving the EU customs union.