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Parliamentary Scrutiny of Leaving the EU

I am afraid that that intervention is rather a demonstration of one of the problems that we have with the language on this issue. People have been talking

about “hard Brexit” and “soft Brexit”, which mean very little. Attempts have been made to pigeonhole what could be any one of a whole range of outcomes in market terms. We have not yet started a negotiation with the European Union and there is a whole spectrum—from free trade area, to customs union, to the single market arrangement. The shadow Secretary of State was laying out some of those possibilities. We are not going to go for a Norwegian, Turkish or Swiss option—we are going for a British option, which will be tailored to our interests and better for our interests than any other option.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
615 c330 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Brexit
Thursday, 27 October 2016
Written questions
House of Commons
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