Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Bill

I rise to speak in support of new clause 1 and new clause 12, and I shall also seek to speak brie...

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I will take my hon. Friend’s intervention in a moment, but not yet.

I say that very gently ...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will take my hon. Friend’s intervention in a moment.

It was Margaret Thatcher who, as a p...

I knew Margaret Thatcher; I worked for Margaret Thatcher. My right hon. Friend ain’t no Margaret ...

I do not pretend to be able to walk in Margaret Thatcher’s boots, but I have read her speeches ab...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

In a moment.

The reality, which is faced in the White Paper, is that if we do not deliver f...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will give way to my right hon. Friend the Member for Loughborough and then I will come down the...

Does not the intervention on my right hon. Friend made by our hon. Friend the Member for Gainsbor...

Here is a surprise: I completely agree with my right hon. Friend.

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will.

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I said that I would go down the row first. In a moment gents; hang on.

I have been listening with great interest to my right hon. Friend’s speech. I am a former remaine...

I do not wish to be rude to my hon. Friend, but that really is the stuff of madness. Of course we...

I have a very successful manufacturer in my constituency abiding by the very disciplines that my ...

I will take another intervention.

I think the point that my right hon. Friend did not want to take is that there are plenty of busi...

I have to say to my hon. Friend that that is absolute codswallop. When I went to Toyota, we were ...

I want to go back to the point about enforcing our border. Some people say that, if we were tradi...

That was a very long but very good intervention.

I have heard exactly the same points from businesses in my community. I have heard the same point...

I completely agree. I say to my Government that they are in grave danger of not just losing the p...

That’s your career over, Mel.

For the record, that was said by my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr Djanogly). If anyon...

Order. Before the right hon. Lady returns to the substance of her remarks, I just point out to he...

By remarkable coincidence, Madam Deputy Speaker, I am coming to the conclusion of my remarks. I w...

Is not one of the features of these two amendments the fact that they would not do what their pro...

I completely agree with my right hon. and learned Friend. Members on the Government Front Bench, ...

What has really been going on here is that some of these extreme individuals have been threatenin...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. It is disgraceful, because this White Paper is a genuine ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that, if the Government were guaranteed the support of the Labour...

My right hon. and learned Friend is right, as ever.

The truth is that both main political p...

I commend the right hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry) for the passion with which she has spo...

The hon. Gentleman misunderstands amendment 73. One of the other amendments, which the Government...

We have got the hon. Gentleman’s measure now. He used to be an entertaining curiosity, but no lon...

Are we not seeing here an insertion of further red lines when we have enough of them already?

Exactly. It would be sensible of the Government to read the runes and start thinking about where ...

I would just like to reflect on how refreshing it is—it is probably what the majority of the coun...

Well, I will certainly want to vote against amendment 73, but my hon. Friends will make their own...

It is very clear, as my hon. Friend says, who those Members are working with and what their agend...

Yes, indeed.

It is helpful if we view the two Bills we are considering today and tomorrow a...

That is not actually correct. It is quite common in a free trade agreement to have what is known ...

There are certain manufactured goods where they have that, but across the piece of a whole econom...

On the rules of origin, the hon. Gentleman may wish to read the pan-Euro-Mediterranean convention...

My experience is very different in terms of the information I have. If we look across the range o...

On the important issue of rules of origin, which my hon. Friend has just raised, we have heard th...

Exactly. Presumably the Government think they can negotiate on that between the UK and the EU bil...

Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that it is time we listen to the people who run businesses, rat...

Yes, and the problem we have had is that ideology and populism have been running this country for...

Order. It will be obvious to the House that a great many people want to speak. We have three hour...

For the convenience of members of the Gallery, I should start by saying that this is not a resign...

One of the most remarkable features of the last 20 years has been the globalised economy and the ...

My right hon. and learned Friend was being uncharacteristically inattentive, because that is exac...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will give way, but I will have to constrain interventions because of the time limit.

Will my right hon. Friend confirm that many successful manufacturing businesses in Britain today ...

My right hon. Friend is exactly right. It is an issue that I will return to in a second, but befo...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

No, I will not give way.

I went back last year to look at it again, and yes it was 15-year-...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

No, if my hon. Friend will forgive me. I am short of time.

The simple truth is they operate...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

No, if my right hon. Friend will forgive me.

The issues that remain at the border will depe...

If what the right hon. Gentleman says about the border is so, why was he part of a Government tha...

They did not agree to the backstop; they agreed to the joint report that talked about full alignm...

It is interesting to follow the former Brexit Secretary and to reflect on the speech he has just ...

Did the right hon. Lady notice that there was no detail about the reality of the America-Canada b...

I completely agree with the right hon. Lady. The former Brexit Secretary seems to be arguing that...

Will the right hon. Lady give some consideration to supporting our new clause 36, which will beco...

Let me just deal with new clause 36. If the Government are saying that they will accept it, I do ...

That phrase in the White Paper describes a perfectly sensible arrangement. If we adopt the new cl...

I think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is right on two counts. First, I think that thi...

Will the right hon. Lady give way?

No, I will not, because there is a time limit and I want to finish my speech early so that others...

Why would any company bother to carry out expensive rules of origin checks if paying the tariff, ...

That is really flipped logic. The hon. Gentleman is effectively saying, “They do not have to do t...

The logic is actually very simple. Empirical evidence shows that in international trade, companie...

I would caution the right hon. Gentleman against dismissing the rules of origin checks. There is ...

Will the right hon. Lady give way?

I will give way once more, but I am conscious of the time.

Surely rules of origin checks are about not only tariffs, but environmental protection, for examp...

The hon. Lady is right. We need to address the wider issues relating to friction at the border as...

Order. The right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) will be the last Member to sp...

Mr Speaker, I am grateful to you for calling me. You may be disbelieving, but I assure you that I...

The key concern for me is that we seem to be separating EU trade and non-EU trade, but is it not ...

I agree and that is why I tabled, with my right hon. Friend the Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry)...

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I cannot give way.

Some people want us to give up the hated European rules on animal welfar...

Order. The new time limit will have to be no more than eight minutes.

I have saved us a few minutes.

Indeed, and we are immensely grateful.

I hope that the penny is now dropping among those who inflicted the EU referendum and the subsequ...

I am here.

I am sorry—the hon. Gentleman is present. He was more honest. I hope that he does not feel that I...

Unlike probably the vast majority of hon. and right hon. Members, I actually used to work in manu...

The hon. Gentleman might be surprised to hear that I also worked in business before I came into P...

Malaysia.

Malaysia, not China.

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I also want to talk about new clauses 7, 8 and 9. New cl...

I rise to speak to new clause 36, tabled in my name and those of other hon. and right hon. Member...

Will my right hon. Friend confirm whether it is her view that new clause 36 conflicts or is in li...

I just made the point that it was disappointing that the principle of reciprocity was not in the ...

Has the right hon. Lady completed her speech?

indicated assent.

The right hon. Lady used commendable brevity, upon which I congratulate her.

It is a great privilege to follow the right hon. Member for Witham (Priti Patel). We sit on the S...

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I am happy to give way to the right hon. Gentleman, given that I mentioned him.

I rise just to tell the hon. Gentleman that nearly everything he just said in that sentence is un...

I am delighted to hear that he would have resigned regardless, but he must surely have some regre...

Is the hon. Gentleman really suggesting that the 163 independent members of the WTO are somehow t...

I will tell the hon. Gentleman who is teetering on the cliff edge: the 10,000 or 12,000 people in...

I rise to speak to new clause 37, which is in my name and those of my hon and right hon. Friends....

Will the hon. Gentleman reiterate the point that new clause 37 simply underlines and reaffirms wh...

Of course I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman, although I hope we always do have a Unionis...

I support all those who have been arguing for continued membership of the customs union, and ther...

The hon. Lady makes an important point about the value of trade defences in our armoury. Would sh...

I am afraid that I do not share the hon. Gentleman’s faith in our own Government continuing to ke...

Let me start by saying that I agree with my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howd...

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I am going to carry on and explore this point. Because Turkey is not subject to that agreement, a...

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No, I am not giving way as I am going to explore my points in the available time.

The lesso...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I am going to use my three remaining minutes.

The fourth area—again, it is remarkable that ...

I apologise for the fact that I had to attend a Statutory Instrument Committee, but I was present...

I rise to speak to amendment 73, tabled in my name and the names of my right hon. and hon. Friend...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will; I would enjoy continuing my speech so please intervene.

Did the hon. Gentleman notice that, in March 2016, the European Union agreed, on the so-called ta...

I am sorry, but that must have passed me by. I know that, to get around the difficulties that wer...

Has the hon. Gentleman completed his oration?

indicated assent.

He has. We are grateful to him.

When we had the referendum result, and given the bitterness that existed during the referendum, I...

The right hon. Gentleman is quite right; there seem to be an awful lot of people who do not reall...

That is the whole point of new clause 37. First, it would deliver on the promises made by the Gov...

The right hon. Gentleman is of course right that the constitutional status of Northern Ireland ha...

That is the point that I am making—that this red herring has been thrown into the debate to try t...

I am very pleased to follow the right hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson), who has put on ...

My hon. Friend is making some very good points. I certainly do not argue that we should be member...

Order. I am immensely grateful. May I encourage the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir ...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Just to answer my hon. Friend’s point, I think that we have to be practica...

No, it is because they are useless.

My right hon. and learned Friend, who seems to be becoming a remainer again, judging from his art...

Oh, come on.

No, that is what he said. He said that we will have to rethink Brexit completely if we cannot get...

Ahem!

I end on this one point, Mr Speaker. We have heard a lot about 40 MPs having an excessive amount ...

Thank you. The time limit will have to be reduced, with immediate effect, to five minutes.

I wish to speak to new clause 11 and against amendment 73.

Last week, we had a debate in We...

There is one matter on which I agree with my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and How...

I rise to speak to new clauses 1, 11 and 12, and very much in support of a customs union.

I...

My hon. Friend speaks with great experience on these matters. Does he agree that small businesses...

My right hon. Friend is right that SMEs, particularly in the component supply chain, are the most...

I should say first that I recognise the importance of the Bill and why it is necessary if we are ...

Order. Several Members, all on the same side of the House, wish to speak. I suggest that the time...

May I first thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Putney (Justine Greening) for making what I...

I do not quite see how the hon. Gentleman can say that that is compatible with the Government’s p...

I can merely appeal to how this was set out by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for En...

Order. I think that three minutes will now suffice.

Let me start by saying that, to my mind, the European Research Group’s amendments are clearly aim...

Order. I am extremely obliged to the hon. Gentleman, to whom I could always listen at length, but...

I want to speak against new clause 1, which my right hon. Friend the Member for Broxtowe (Anna So...

Two minutes are preferable to three.

In the referendum campaign, the Home Office told my constituents that the jungle would move from ...

We are leaving the EU and that means that we need to have a new relationship with the single mark...

There is one minute.

I want to focus on trade remedies. This is particularly important for the ceramic sector in my co...

Given that there may not be a Third Reading, I will start very briefly with some thank yous. I wo...

I read the White Paper on the train home on Thursday, if only out of a sense of morbid curiosity,...

I call the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mel Stride, but, as I do so, I must advise the Ho...

Mr Speaker, that is quite an introduction; thank you most graciously for your lovely comments—you...

I wish the right hon. Gentleman—my old friend, who was my former economics tutorial partner at un...

Services are most certainly not less important than goods; they make up about 80% of the economy ...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his wedding anniversary. He has mentioned the facilitated ...

I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for that intervention. I have very little time, but I wi...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not give way, no. [Hon. Members: “Give way!”] I have a lot to cover, and I will not give w...

My right hon. Friend will be aware that there is some concern on this side of the House regarding...

The negotiating strategy of the UK Government is to seek reciprocity in this respect, and that is...

For one sentence, I call Anna Soubry.

New clause 36 and amendment 73 are designed not to help the White Paper, but to wreck it. I am go...

Order. I am sure that this matter is of the greatest possible interest to the right hon. Member f...

I informed the House earlier—which may have been of interest to those present, and with the encou...

Order. Colleagues will understand me if I say that I think there might be some evidence of what I...

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Order. It is very good of the right hon. Gentleman, but I think that the Government had previousl...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. The instincts on our side are often divided, but not on this matter. We ar...

Well, an absence of Tellers will suffice to achieve the objective of the Minister. Division off.<...