Extract from oral answer (Lords) on UK–EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Meetings of Bodies - May 27
Friday, 28 May 2021 07:54
Lord Jones of Cheltenham (LD) [V]: Is the noble Lord making any
progress on negotiating a new deal for the creative sector on
touring in Europe? While he is thinking of a plausible answer to
that, can he tell us whether, when he decided to reject the EU’s
generous offer in the negotiations and throw touring musicians
under a bus, he anticipated, is surprised by, or accepts any
responsibility at all for the humiliation of our country scoring
zero—nul points—in the Eurovision Song...Request free trial
(LD) [V]: Is the noble Lord making any
progress on negotiating a new deal for the creative sector on
touring in Europe? While he is thinking of a plausible answer to
that, can he tell us whether, when he decided to reject the EU’s
generous offer in the negotiations and throw touring musicians under a bus, he anticipated,
is surprised by, or accepts any responsibility at all for the
humiliation of our country scoring zero—nul points—in the
Eurovision Song Contest?
The Minister of State, Cabinet Office () (Con): My Lords, I am happy to accept responsibility for
many things but I do not think I can reasonably accept that I
affected the result on Saturday night. As regards creatives, of
course we work to support all our creative industries in the
situation that now prevails under the TCA. We made proposals in the
negotiations that would have largely solved the difficulties faced
by our great creative industries. The proposals made by the EU
would not have done so, so we would be in this situation. We are
now working as hard as we possibly can with the member states to
establish the facts about visas and to support our industry in
moving forward.
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