Joanna Cherry
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(7 years, 1 month ago)
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The Prime Minister
I can assure my right hon. Friend that the negotiations are continuing. As I have said, we want to ensure, as we are doing, that we work towards getting a good deal. The purpose of my Florence speech was to set out a vision for that deep and special partnership in the future, and it is that partnership that the Government are working towards.
Joanna Cherry (Edinburgh South West) (SNP)
There has been much talk today of the time-limited implementation period that the Prime Minister referred to in her Florence speech. Others have referred to it as a transitional deal. Has there been any discussion with the EU27 as to what the legal basis of such a transitional period would be? Would it be article 50 or something else?
The Prime Minister
The European Union raised a similar concept to the implementation period in its April guidelines, and that would be on the basis of the article 50 process.