G7 and NATO Summits Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

G7 and NATO Summits

Marco Longhi Excerpts
Wednesday 16th June 2021

(2 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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Plainly, the free trade deals with the CPTPP, Australia and countries around the world that we are doing and will continue to do make a nonsense of the proposal that the hon. Gentleman outlines.

Marco Longhi Portrait Marco Longhi (Dudley North) (Con)
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Our hosting of the G7 and the reaffirmation of our indestructible partnership with our cousins across the pond—also seen through NATO—sets the scene for a brighter and far more aspirational future for the whole of the UK. Does the Prime Minister agree and can he explain, perhaps in writing if he does not have time now, what this means for the people of Dudley North and the rest of the country?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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The people of Dudley North and the rest of the country will benefit massively from a new age of co-operation between our democracies; from the security that we are establishing, but also from our global commitment to work together to build back greener, so that we generate hundreds of thousands—millions—of high-wage, high-skilled jobs in Dudley, in the west midlands and around the whole of the UK.