EU Exit Negotiations Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

EU Exit Negotiations

Ruth Cadbury Excerpts
Thursday 15th November 2018

(5 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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Thank you, Mr Speaker. The hon. Gentleman was suggesting that Scotland was in the same position as Northern Ireland. Of course it is not; it does not have a land border with a country that is going to be within the European Union.

Ruth Cadbury Portrait Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth) (Lab)
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This deal is far worse for our young people than the deal they currently have with our membership of the EU. This deal has no guarantees on Erasmus, funding for EU students, their travel and work rights in Europe and EU research funding worth €100 billion. When the future of millions of young people is at stake, does the Prime Minister not agree that it is time to let them vote for their future with a people’s vote, particularly for those young people who did not get a vote last time because they were not old enough?

Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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There are references in what we have agreed in relation to some of the matters the hon. Lady raises, but the deal is about the future of this country. [Interruption.] She is holding up the withdrawal agreement. The withdrawal agreement is about our withdrawal from the European Union. It is not about our future relationship. The matters she referred to are about our future relationship.