New Partnership with the EU

Steve McCabe Excerpts

Tuesday 17th January 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davis]

Of course. If the European negotiators take a rational approach, we will do this deal inside the two years, and it will be good for both sides.

[Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak) (Lab)]

No deal might be better than a bad deal, but is not the reality that no deal means that, despite their best efforts, the British Government have been unable to conclude what they regard as a satisfactory outcome to the negotiations, leaving us therefore with what the other 27 members want to impose on us, and does that not sound like a pretty bad deal?

[Mr Davis]

No. Being left with what the 27 nations want to impose on us is the definition of a bad deal.