NATO Summit Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

NATO Summit

Stephen Kinnock Excerpts
Monday 16th July 2018

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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We are certainly putting significant effort into modernisation, in recognising the need for new capabilities and the modernisation of NATO. I think it is fair to say that we are one of the countries at the forefront of that modernisation, but we are ensuring that other allies around the table recognise its importance and come along with it, too.

Stephen Kinnock Portrait Stephen Kinnock (Aberavon) (Lab)
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The Prime Minister rightly said that NATO and the EU are the dual cornerstones of our security. Why, then, does she keep dancing to the tune of the European Research Group? Does she see that by capitulating to its proposals on the customs and trade Bills, she is accepting that the Chequers deal is dead in the water?

Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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The hon. Gentleman is absolutely wrong in his reference to the agreement that was reached at Chequers. I would not have gone through all the work I did to ensure we reached that agreement only to see it changed in some way through these Bills. They do not change the Chequers agreement, and the Minister will make that clear from the Dispatch Box later today.