EU Exit Negotiations

Philip Hollobone Excerpts

Tuesday 5th September 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davis]

No, but a country does not have to be a member of that to sell and buy from it, just as many other countries do.

[Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)]

Has it not become depressingly clear this afternoon that, with some honourable exceptions, most Opposition MPs have swallowed the EU negotiating line hook, line and sinker? They want us to transition to staying in the single market and the customs union, and if possible to staying in the whole EU, thus preventing us from regaining control of our borders, and they are displaying a catastrophic loss of nerve at the first whiff of grapeshot from the European Commission. May I commend my right hon. Friend for his cool head and his steady nerve, and may I urge him to hold the line and not to listen to the remoaners who have become reversers who would sell our country short?

[Mr Davis]

I thank my hon. Friend for the compliment, but all I will say is that I do not think the grapeshot has started yet.