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Mon 20th Nov 2017
Duties of Customs
Commons Chamber

Ways and Means resolution: House of Commons

Duties of Customs Debate

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Duties of Customs

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Ways and Means resolution: House of Commons
Monday 20th November 2017

(6 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Well, it is jobs, isn’t it? [Hon. Members: “Nine hundred jobs.”] Yes, 900 jobs, and maybe even more, if we include the knock-on effect. So the Government have just given up 900 jobs; that is the start—the tip of the iceberg. If the pharmaceuticals industry cannot get equivalence with the current customs union, how many more jobs will go in that industry? Before everybody says, “Oh, you’re just a remoaner”—

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Well, if being a remoaner means defending the jobs of the people of my constituency and the country, I will buy a badge—perhaps the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Kwasi Kwarteng), who is chuntering away over there, could get me a badge. I am a proud remoaner. It means caring about jobs, not giving up on them.