UK-EU Negotiations Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

UK-EU Negotiations

Munira Wilson Excerpts
Tuesday 16th June 2020

(4 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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We are negotiating to achieve precisely that goal.

Munira Wilson Portrait Munira Wilson (Twickenham) (LD)
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If the tiger turns out to be a pussycat and we do not end up with a deal in a few short weeks, when will the right hon. Gentleman be providing advice and guidance to the heavily regulated industries and, indeed, farmers in mainland Britain that supply Northern Ireland, so that the people of Northern Ireland can continue to legally receive medicines, for example, from 1 January next year?

Michael Gove Portrait Michael Gove
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There will be no question, no impediment and nothing to prevent the citizens of Northern Ireland—whose rights I know the hon. Lady has taken a keen interest in upholding—from securing access to vital medicines or any other goods after we leave the European Union.