Extracts from Parliamentary Proceedings - Sep 5
Wednesday, 6 September 2017 08:49
Extract from Lords debate on Brexit: UK-Irish Relations Lord
Hain (Lab):...In the much-vaunted new free-trade nirvana that
awaits post-Brexit Britain with no Irish border controls, US
chicken, New Zealand lamb, Australian beef, Chinese steel
and Indian cars can be imported into Belfast, sent a couple of
hours down the road to the ports of Dublin or Cork and exported
tariff-free to France or Germany. Surely this is nonsense on
stilts... To read the whole debate, CLICK HERE...Request free trial
Extract from Lords debate
on Brexit: UK-Irish Relations
(Lab):...In the
much-vaunted new free-trade nirvana that awaits post-Brexit Britain
with no Irish border controls, US chicken, New Zealand lamb,
Australian beef, Chinese steel and Indian cars can be imported into Belfast, sent a
couple of hours down the road to the ports of Dublin or Cork and
exported tariff-free to France or Germany. Surely this is nonsense
on stilts...
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HERE
Extract from oral
statement on Korea
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
(Boris Johnson):...China, which accounts for 90% of North
Korea’s overseas trade, has a unique ability to influence the North
Korean regime, and the House can take heart from the fact that
Beijing voted in favour of the latest sanctions resolution and
condemned Pyongyang’s actions in the most unsparing terms. North
Korea’s nuclear device was not only tested near China’s border but
was detonated on the day President Xi Jinping opened a summit in
Xiamen with the leaders of Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa.
I call on China to use all its leverage to ensure a peaceful
settlement of this grave crisis...
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