G7 Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

G7

John Bercow Excerpts
Monday 11th June 2018

(6 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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I am not sure what activity my hon. Friend is asking me to undertake with either. [Laughter.]

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Moreover, if one were being really pedantic one would have to say that the hon. Gentleman’s question did not contain a main verb.

Mary Creagh Portrait Mary Creagh (Wakefield) (Lab)
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It’s certainly not “Love Island”, is it Mr Speaker?

The G7 summit was a fiasco rescued only by our EU allies and friends who filled the vacuum of leadership created by President Trump’s tweets. Does his abandonment of the international rules-based trading system not reveal how important it is for us to stay in a customs union and in the European single market, not least for the environmental and social protections that any bilateral trade deals with third countries receive?