Extract from Lords debate on the EU Withdrawal Agreement - Jan 9
Thursday, 10 January 2019 07:57
Baroness Mallalieu (Lab):...Surely the time has come for us to set
our own agenda and timetable and not ask the EU’s consent—to spell
out in terms what we are going to do here, albeit for a limited
period, during which a long-term agreement can be reached with the
Commission on Mrs May’s wish list. We should be generous with the
terms of trade with the EU—no tariffs, no hold-ups at our end,
generous arrangements for EU citizens here, and an immigration
policy which ensures that...Request free
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(Lab):...Surely the time has come for us to set our own
agenda and timetable and not ask the EU’s consent—to spell out in
terms what we are going to do here, albeit for a limited period,
during which a long-term agreement can be reached with the
Commission on Mrs May’s wish list. We should be generous with the
terms of trade with the EU—no tariffs, no hold-ups at our end,
generous arrangements for EU citizens here, and an immigration
policy which ensures that our health service, our agriculture and
industries which need seasonal workers can get them in. I
understand that the Government have started to do this, and I
applaud them for doing so. They will need to do it with greater
intensity and more publicly before 29 March, and indeed they would
be rightly condemned if they were not spending money now to do
so...
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