Luciana Berger
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(12 years, 2 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
My hon. Friend makes an important point. We have a blocking minority on extending the working time directive and we need to ensure that we keep that together. In my view, however, this is the sort of area that the European Union should not have got into in the first place.
Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree) (Lab/Co-op)
Will the Prime Minister confirm that the UK will not be represented at meetings of the 25 countries?
The Prime Minister
We are not signatories to the agreement, so we will not be represented at the meetings. What was interesting about Friday was that, although they signed an agreement, there was only one meeting, which was a meeting of the 27 that discussed, funnily enough—[Interruption.] I was in the room at the time—[Hon. Members: “Ooh!”] We discussed not only the single market but single currency issues.