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Kevin Foster

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Galileo Programme
Thursday 14th June 2018

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robin Walker Portrait Mr Walker
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No, I agree with the Conservative and Labour manifestos that said that we should be leaving the customs union and ensuring that we have an independent trade policy, but we also want to deliver the frictionless trade that businesses up and down our country need.

Kevin Foster Portrait Kevin Foster (Torbay) (Con)
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In the discussions with the European Union, have the Government made it clear that we would not tolerate a solution that put the customs border down the Irish sea, or for that matter, between England and Scotland, as some others want to do?

Robin Walker Portrait Mr Walker
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My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. We have made that abundantly clear, and the Prime Minister has been very clear that no UK Prime Minister could accept such a solution.

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