Prime Minister’s Statement Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Prime Minister’s Statement

Vicky Ford Excerpts
Saturday 19th October 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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There are not any tariffs on goods, as the right hon. Gentleman knows full well, going GB-NI or NI-GB.

Vicky Ford Portrait Vicky Ford (Chelmsford) (Con)
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We all know that the people of our country are desperate to end this uncertainty, but we often forget that the people of the other 27 countries are also desperate to end this uncertainty, and our Prime Minister has needed to get consent from all 27 countries. Does he agree that if this House fails to back this deal today, or seeks to kick the can down the road again, we will create more uncertainty, not less?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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My hon. Friend is exactly right, and the choice is very clear today for this House and for the country: it is really this deal or a no-deal Brexit. I do not think, by any stretch of the imagination, it can be right for the UK to delay beyond 31 October when that is expensive, pointless and a waste of spirit and an expense of shame that would achieve absolutely nothing whatever.