New Partnership with the EU Debate

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Stuart C McDonald

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Northern Ireland Assembly Election

New Partnership with the EU

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Point of Order
Tuesday 17th January 2017

(7 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Davis Portrait Mr Davis
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It requires all members of the European Union together to agree.

Stuart C McDonald Portrait Stuart C. McDonald (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) (SNP)
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The Prime Minister’s fixation with leaving the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice clearly jeopardises the extent of our ongoing co-operation in EU justice and home affairs issues, which she says she values. If those ambitions collide, surely the Secretary of State will agree that security co-operation must trump leaving the European Court’s jurisdiction.

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We have security arrangements with other allies—America for a start—which do not run into that problem, so I would not think that that is an issue.

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