A New Partnership with the EU

Lord Watts Excerpts
Tuesday 17th January 2017

(7 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Watts Portrait Lord Watts (Lab)
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My Lords, during the referendum campaign the Prime Minister said that it would be a disaster if we left the single market, because the British people would be poorer as a result. Can the Minister explain why she has changed her mind?

Lord Bridges of Headley Portrait Lord Bridges of Headley
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My Lords, it is since people voted to leave the European Union in the referendum on 23 June. The consequences of that vote and the options open have therefore been analysed and assessed, and the Prime Minister has set out the plan that we have heard today.