Brexit: Gibraltar Debate
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Lord Wigley
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Brexit: Gibraltar
Lord Wigley Excerpts(6 years, 9 months ago)
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Lord Callanan
I say to the noble Lord that I think it is clear. The Prime Minister said in Parliament on 18 December that,
“we will be … negotiating to ensure that the relationships are there for Gibraltar as well. We are not going to exclude Gibraltar from our negotiations for either the implementation period or the future agreement”.—[Official Report, Commons, 18/12/17; col. 758.]
It could not be clearer.
Lord Wigley (PC)
Does the Minister not accept that the predicament of Gibraltar would be largely overcome if we remained in the single market and the customs union?
Lord Callanan
I will repeat what has been said in the discussions we have had many times on this: we share the position of the Labour Front Bench that we are leaving the single market and leaving the customs union.