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Pat McFadden Excerpts
Tuesday 9th January 2018

(6 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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We certainly shall.

Pat McFadden Portrait Mr Pat McFadden (Wolverhampton South East) (Lab)
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Why are the Government taking legal advice on suing the European Union for preparing to treat Britain as a third country from March 2019 when that is the express intention of UK Government policy?

Boris Johnson Portrait Boris Johnson
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As I am sure the right hon. Gentleman and his constituents would want, we intend to get a superb new relationship, a new deep and special partnership, with our friends and partners in the EU. That is the objective of the negotiations now under way.