Vicky Ford (Chelmsford) (Con):...Let me remind the House of the
different options. First, a no-deal Brexit would bring many
uncertainties. As we saw in the paperwork released over the summer,
it is absolutely right that the Government endeavour to mitigate
some of those uncertainties, but it is certainly not the preferred
solution. Secondly, a Norway-style relationship, staying in the
single market and the customs union, would bring huge challenges,
as I know from my own experience. One...Request free trial
(Chelmsford)
(Con):...Let me remind the House of the different options.
First, a no-deal Brexit would bring many uncertainties. As we saw
in the paperwork released over the summer, it is absolutely right
that the Government endeavour to mitigate some of those
uncertainties, but it is certainly not the preferred solution.
Secondly, a Norway-style relationship, staying in the single market
and the customs union, would bring huge challenges, as I know from
my own experience. One challenge would be needing to keep the free
movement rules, which were such a major issue to many voters in the
referendum. The other big challenge is being a rule taker,
especially on very sensitive issues such as fishing, Farming and financial services, areas
where, in my experience in Europe, there was often a great
difference of approach...
...We need to be careful. If we are going to raise points on
the White Paper, let us make sure those points are truly valid and
not scaremongering. There would be a real issue if we were left
rule taking in areas such as financial services, where often we
have a different economic balance from other European countries,
but the White Paper does not do that. On the three Fs in
particular, fishing, Farming and financial services, we
would not be a rule taker. We would have common rules on goods, but
actually all trade deals have some form of common rules on goods.
The deeper the trade deal one wants, the more one needs to have a
common approach to the goods that go across the border. Europe is
our largest trading partner, so presumably we want the deepest
trade deal. Eighty per cent. of the rules that are set on the goods
across the EU are not set by politicians anyway; they are set by
the businesses, as part of the trade between different
businesses...
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