Extract from Commons consideration of Lords amendments to the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill - Dec 7
Tuesday, 8 December 2020 07:59
Gary Sambrook (Birmingham, Northfield) (Con):...Where the single
market has held back the United Kingdom’s high standards, the UK
will be able to become a world leader when the transition period is
over. Earlier, my right hon. Friend the Member for North Somerset
(Dr Fox) said that for him the reason Brexit was so important was
the constitutional settlement. For me, it is about clauses 48 and
49, which will enable this country to fulfil our manifesto
commitment about levelling up. I look at...Request free trial
(Birmingham, Northfield) (Con):...Where the single
market has held back the United Kingdom’s high standards, the UK
will be able to become a world leader when the transition period is
over. Earlier, my right hon. Friend the Member for North Somerset
() said that for
him the reason Brexit was so important was the constitutional
settlement. For me, it is about clauses 48 and 49, which will
enable this country to fulfil our manifesto commitment about
levelling up. I look at communities across my constituency—I have
mentioned MG Rover several times in this place, including on Second
Reading—and the opportunities that have been lost there for many
years. We can spend this money in the United Kingdom to offer jobs,
opportunities, skills and training in communities that have felt
left behind for far too long. When we look at places such as
GKN Aerospace in my constituency, which
unfortunately is closing, we need to look at ways in which we can
upskill and retrain people who have worked for 20 or 30 years in
the same factory unit, giving them the opportunity to move on and
work in new jobs and new industries...
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