Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: Border Arrangements Debate
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Nigel Mills
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Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: Border Arrangements
Nigel Mills Excerpts(6 years, 10 months ago)
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Mr Lidington
I am particularly conscious that in County Londonderry people commute to and from work, businesses supply customers and people travel to and from the doctors across the international jurisdictional border. For people to be able to go about their everyday lives, it is important that we reach the kind of agreement to which our Government and the Irish Government are committed.
Nigel Mills (Amber Valley) (Con)
Will my right hon. Friend define for the House what the Government meant when they said that they would guarantee that there would be no hard border? What would such a hard border involve and what are we guaranteeing will not exist?
Mr Lidington
It is exactly what we said in our commitment to the joint report in December and in the position paper that we published last summer.