It pains me to advise my hon. Friend of this, but in the last quarterly set of figures, that honourable exception of the north-east being the only region that exports more than it imports is no longer the case. I know that, as a doughty fighter for the north-east, that it is not what she wants to hear, but it is testament to what happens under this Government.
Future Free Trade Agreements
Proceeding contribution from
Barry Gardiner
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 21 February 2019.
It occurred during Debate on Future Free Trade Agreements.
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