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European Union (Withdrawal) Act

Debate between Ross Thomson and Andrea Jenkyns
Wednesday 9th January 2019

(5 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrea Jenkyns Portrait Andrea Jenkyns
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I believe in a global Britain, as the Prime Minister said in her statement several times, and it is important that, in trading with both smaller nations and larger nations, Britain is free to chart its own path in the world and to forge new trade deals with whoever.

Ross Thomson Portrait Ross Thomson (Aberdeen South) (Con)
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My hon. Friend will not be aware of it, but, in evidence to the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs today, Ryan Scatterty of Thistle Seafoods in the north-east of Scotland, representing seafood processors, said that the growing market for his industry is in places like Australia. The industry currently trades on WTO rules, as he confirmed to the Committee. If the industry can do that with Australia, surely it can do it with the EU.

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