EU: United States Free Trade Agreement

Lord Strathclyde Excerpts
Wednesday 19th December 2012

(11 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Strathclyde Portrait The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Strathclyde)
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My Lords, I think it is the turn of my noble friend Lady Falkner.

Baroness Falkner of Margravine Portrait Baroness Falkner of Margravine
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Is my noble friend aware of the United States’s concerns about its influence with both the United Kingdom and the European Union should the United Kingdom seek to distance itself from the current arrangements it has as a serious partner in the EU? Will he consider, in the light of the US-UK free trade agreement what the implications might be if we proceed to distance ourselves from within the European Union?