Northern Ireland Protocol

The hon. Gentleman makes a very important point. Is it not significant that since the protocol ca...

I could not be more grateful for that intervention, and I will amplify the points that the right ...

Sometimes, over the course of this, the view is taken in the EU, or even in Ireland, that somehow...

My right hon. Friend puts down an important marker. We can dismiss any idea that the United Kingd...

I have to impose an immediate six-minute time limit on Back Bench speeches, but that is quite gen...

I congratulate my right hon. and hon. Friends on securing this debate today and on giving Members...

On that point about goods moving from Northern Ireland to GB unmolested and unhindered, was my ri...

My hon. Friend makes the point very powerfully.

Sixthly, new arrangements should ensure tha...

On those last two points about no new regulatory barriers and the checks on goods going between G...

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Of course we accept that checks that were in place ...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) for instigatin...

To confirm the answer to the question which is being silently asked, there is no mechanism whereb...

It is a genuine pleasure to follow the Chair of the Select Committee, the hon. Member for North D...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) on land...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) on getting this m...

I very much welcome this debate. A lot has been said about the Northern Ireland protocol over rec...

The United Kingdom left the EU lawfully and democratically under our own constitutional arrangeme...

I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate, and I am grateful to the Members who tabled th...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich an...

Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that the most important part of mutual enforcement is that t...

I am going to refer to the right hon. Gentleman as my right hon. Friend for this because he is ab...

I welcome the opening portion of the motion tabled by the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex...

If I may, I shall begin by commending my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir ...

Does my right hon. Friend recognise that Lord Trimble is not just a Nobel peace prize winner, but...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. Lord Trimble helped to create the Good Friday agreement...

After all these months, it is hard to know what is left to say on the protocol. It was nobody’s f...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) on secu...

I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) on securing...

On the issue of having a foot in both camps, at today’s Northern Ireland Affairs Committee the Ul...

I have heard time and again the argument that we have the best of both worlds, but I have not hea...

As long ago as 2016, the British people voted to take back control. We voted to re-establish our ...

It is a privilege to take part in today’s debate on an issue of profound importance to the future...

This debate is about the future and we should focus on that, not the past. Article 6 of the North...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) on setting the sc...

I thank the Backbench Business Committee for choosing this debate. Something I have learned in my...

Can I add my thanks to my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin)...

My right hon. Friend kindly referred to me earlier and, far more importantly, to Lord Trimble. Do...

My right hon. Friend puts it very well. There are serious risks here, which is why we need to add...

Why not?

Well, they may. My request was going to be for the Minister to set out which of the tests that th...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex (Sir Bernard Jenkin) for this timel...

It is a pleasure indeed to speak in this debate. I begin, as other speakers have done, by congrat...

Scotland might have free unfettered trade with Northern Ireland, but does the hon. Gentleman not ...

I think there is a shared interest in making sure that there is as close to seamless trade as can...

May I just point out that if there was an independent Scotland inside the European Union, it woul...

I knew that mentioning Scottish independence in this context would wake up hon. Members on the Go...

It is pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Gordon (Richard Thomson). I add my thanks to the hon...

The hon. Lady has, interestingly, reopened the issue of mutual enforcement and recognition. She r...

Of course we have studied the suggestions made by Lord Trimble, who we all thoroughly respect as ...

I thought the hon. Lady started her speech extremely well. We have had a few party political poin...

We are very happy to see such proposals negotiated. I suggest that the EU is highly unlikely to a...

When she talks about food standards, does the hon. Lady find it odd that the EU is now proposing ...

For us to have higher food and animal welfare standards than the European Union would not be a ba...

I thank all Members who have spoken in this debate from all parts of the UK, from Essex to Edinbu...

On the point about prioritising the single market, it is less about that and more about the propo...

My right hon. Friend is right that a seriously unbalanced situation is developing in the way that...

I thank my right hon. Friend for her strong speech. This has been a thoughtful and meaningful deb...

I am suspending the House for a few minutes to make the necessary arrangements for the next busin...