Leaving the EU: Fisheries Management

Jeremy Lefroy 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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It is the case that important questions need to be resolved, but the one thing the SNP is promising is that we will never leave the CFP. It is instructive that in so many of their questions SNP Members talk about Ruth Davidson but never about a single fisherman, species or community; they only attack the leader of the Scottish Conservatives. Why? They’re feart.

Jeremy Lefroy Portrait Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) (Con)
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Will my right hon. Friend confirm that under yesterday’s transition agreement we can continue to market fish and fish products seamlessly and frictionlessly into the EU, and that that is his aim for the time after the transition period has ended?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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Yes, it is absolutely the case that we want as friction free a trade arrangement as possible with the EU, and indeed with other nations.