Brexit Negotiations Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Brexit Negotiations

Nigel Mills Excerpts
Monday 11th December 2017

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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We put that amendment down because we believe it is important to confirm, and so that people have the confidence of knowing, the date we will leave the European Union, which is 29 March 2019.

Nigel Mills Portrait Nigel Mills (Amber Valley) (Con)
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I welcome the progress made last week. Will the Prime Minister confirm that an ongoing role for the ECJ for eight years does not mean that EU nationals in the UK will have greater rights than UK nationals?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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The basis on which we have agreed various arrangements relating to the rights that will apply to EU citizens here and to UK citizens in the EU27 is the principle that they can maintain the life choices they have already made. We want somebody who has moved here with a set of expectations to be able to carry on living as they have done and with the same expectations for the future.