Leaving the EU Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Leaving the EU

Jim Shannon Excerpts
Monday 9th July 2018

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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The proposals would not prevent free trade agreements with those countries, but there is a challenge for us in relation to the United States and standards. We have always supported a single standards model, but the United States has a multiple standards approach, so that would be an issue. However, this deal enables us to sign trade deals around the world.

Jim Shannon Portrait Jim Shannon (Strangford) (DUP)
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Fishing is important across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My constituency voted to leave, and the village of Portavogie, almost to a man and almost to a woman, wants out of the EU. Will the Prime Minister reassure this House that we will control our fishing waters, quotas and days at sea and that we will have an unfettered, free fishing sector that is in our hands in this House?