Extract from PM
statement on Brexit
Sir (Derbyshire Dales)
(Con): No one is ever going to get what they fully want
out of negotiations, but the very simple fact is that all the
leaders of our major industries, including Rolls-Royce, Toyota
and Jaguar Land Rover, have said that this is the right deal for
them to continue winning markets and employing people in this
country. Is that not one of the most important decisions we
should bear in mind in trying to protect manufacturing jobs and
our country’s future?
The Prime Minister: My right hon. Friend is
absolutely right, but it is not just leaders of manufacturing
industry. He is absolutely right that they have made clear that
this is a good deal and a deal that should be supported, but
others have too. For example, Scottish fishermen and farmers have
also been saying that this is a deal that should be supported.
When Members think about the jobs of their constituents, it is
important that they remember that.
Extract from End of Day
adjournment debate on St Rollox Railway Works:
Closure
Mr (Glasgow North East)
(Lab/Co-op):...During the second world war St Rollox
joined in the war effort, producing, among other things, Airspeed
Horsa gliders for the Normandy landing airborne assault.
Cowlairs, nearby, also produced 200,000 bearing shells
for Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. For
more than 170 years that community has been at the forefront of
Scotland’s engineering excellence. Indeed, anyone growing up in
the city of Glasgow will have visited, and will be familiar with,
the city’s transport museum, and will have seen all the wonderful
steam locomotives which were built in Springburn and more than
25,000 of which were sent to all corners of the earth. That is a
real pedigree of Scottish engineering, which endures to this day.
It would be appalling if the last vestiges of such a wonderful
tradition were to be lost, and we, along with the trade unions,
believe that that is entirely avoidable...
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