UK/EU Future Economic Partnership Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

UK/EU Future Economic Partnership

Matt Warman Excerpts
Monday 5th March 2018

(6 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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We will indeed be negotiating a comprehensive free trade agreement. That is the economic partnership that I set out in my speech. Within that, we will have a comprehensive customs arrangement that will enable us to continue to trade with the European Union on as tariff-free and frictionless a basis as possible.

Matt Warman Portrait Matt Warman (Boston and Skegness) (Con)
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I welcome the subtle and detailed approach to Brexit that the Prime Minister laid out in her speech. As she well knows, the issue of immigration was crucial in seats such as mine. Can she remind hon. Members that, as we leave the European Union and as freedom of movement ends, it will fall to this House to draw up our immigration policy in the future?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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I can absolutely confirm to my hon. Friend that it will be for Parliament to decide what our immigration policy is for the future.