Brexit Negotiations Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Brexit Negotiations

Nic Dakin Excerpts
Monday 11th December 2017

(6 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nic Dakin Portrait Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)
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How will we control immigration in future when migrants from the EU can move freely across the Irish border into the United Kingdom?

Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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We will be setting out the immigration rules that will apply. The Home Office is working on these issues. The question of movement of people between the United Kingdom and Ireland is not suddenly new because we are leaving the European Union—the common travel area has been in place since 1923.