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Future Free Trade Agreements

Proceeding contribution from Bill Esterson (Labour) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 21 February 2019. It occurred during Debate on Future Free Trade Agreements.

The leave campaign pushed the point rather hard about Turkey’s accession to the EU.

My hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Helen Goodman)—this is the bigger point about the Secretary of State’s involvement—spoke about the failure to ensure, when the EU-Japan deal was negotiated, that there is support for the foreign direct investment and its critical place in our car industry, whether at Honda or Nissan. The Secretary of State’s answer is that he will

not change his approach in the future trade deals he negotiates once we have left the EU. That is a pretty grim predictor of what is going to happen under this Secretary of State and his colleagues in their support—or rather lack of it—for our industry, our manufacturing industry and our car industry in particular.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
654 cc1685-6 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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