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UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): We are indeed working on ensuring that we have the necessary structures in place, and legislation will be brought forward to this House in due course in relation to those issues. My right hon. Friend made reference to trade remedies. Of course it is very important that we are able to determine those trade remedies, rather than leaving it to the European Union to determine them for us, as would happen under the policy of the Leader of the Opposition.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Michael Louis David Fabricant (Conservative, Centre-right): The Prime Minister has consistently said that she wants a unique Brexit trade deal for Britain, and she has said again today that Canada and Norway are not the models for us. Is she aware that Angela Merkel has pointed out that Norway has a population of only 4 million, and Canada has a population of only 36 million and trades with the United States? Is the Prime Minister as pleased as I am that Angela Merkel has been able to form a Government, and does she agree that Angela Merkel, being the pragmatic lady she is, will have considerable influence on the European Union in securing a good deal for the United Kingdom?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I was pleased to speak to Chancellor Merkel yesterday to congratulate her on the formation of her Government. I look forward to the negotiations we will be having with Germany and the other members of the European Union. She and others have all been clear that, as we look to the future relationship, we must recognise that the models that already exist do not meet the requirements of the United Kingdom.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): We are setting out on negotiating a free trade deal that will ensure that, for goods, we continue to have tariff-free and as frictionless as possible trade across borders. We have also set out our ambition for financial services, digital services, broadcasting and a whole range of other areas. We will be achieving the benefits of the trade with the European Union in some cases in different ways, but that does not mean that we are not going to have the benefits of a good trading relationship with the European Union in future.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Margaret Ann Throup (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome my right hon. Friend’s pragmatic approach to the negotiations with the EU, and her ongoing commitment to getting the best deal for Britain. Does she agree with me that by fixing the roof and eliminating the day-to-day budget deficit, Britain is now in a much stronger position to be able to forge new trading relationships with the rest of the world, as well as the EU, and make a success of Brexit?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very pleased to welcome the investment—and the continued investment—that Siemens is making in the United Kingdom. I meet the senior directors of Siemens from time to time to discuss their investment in the United Kingdom. We have been clear, as I said in my speech on Friday, that we have been listening to businesses. That is one of the reasons why we have talked about maintaining high regulatory standards in goods crossing borders, so that we can maintain that good trade access between the United Kingdom and the European Union in the future.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I did try to explain this to the Leader of the Opposition, but I will have another go. The legal text that was published by the European Commission is not a legal text on its negotiations for the future economic or security partnership; it is a legal text on withdrawal agreement. We are working on that with the Commission, but what I have done is set out, from the United Kingdom’s point of view, what we want to see from our future economic partnership, just as I set out our future security partnership in Munich a few weeks ago. We now wait for the response from the European Union to our putting out our proposals before they have put out theirs.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Peter William Bone (Conservative, Centre-right): In 389 days’ time, the United Kingdom will leave the dreadful European Union superstate. The Prime Minister will end the free movement of people; she will stop sending billions and billions of pounds to the EU each and every year; and we will make our own laws in our country, judged by our own judges. Does the Prime Minister find it slightly disconcerting that she is the first Conservative leader who has been able to unite those on these Benches on Europe?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very pleased that on these Conservative Benches we are united in the aim of ensuring that we deliver on the vote of the British people, we leave the European Union and we do it with a good deal that leads to an optimistic future for this country.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The United States has expressed interest in a trade deal with us—so have a number of other countries around the world, such as Australia and others—but as I have said, and as the Environment Secretary and others have said, we remain committed to high animal welfare and environmental standards.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Paul Masterton (Conservative, Centre-right): As a Conservative, it is always pleasing when pragmatism trumps ideology, but as a Unionist, it is vital that our departure from the EU does not undermine the political, constitutional or economic integrity of our Union. Can the Prime Minister confirm that it is her position that there will never be any differentiated deal for any constituent part of the United Kingdom?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I am absolutely clear that we want to maintain the United Kingdom. This is a precious Union of four nations but one people, and it is in the economic interests of all parts of the United Kingdom that we maintain the internal market of the United Kingdom. We do not want to see, and we will not see, Brexit leading to any break-up of the United Kingdom.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): What I said was that we are looking at the border arrangements in a number of countries around the world. We are looking not just at the border arrangements the European Union has with a number of countries—it has a variety of customs arrangements with various countries—but more widely around the world. I have set out what I believe is a future arrangement for customs that will suit the United Kingdom and the European Union, and will ensure no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. As the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) pointed out, this has been picked up in the European Parliament and it has been made clear that there are innovative solutions that can deliver exactly what we are talking about.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Macroeconomics
John Charles Baron (Conservative, Centre-right): I commend the Prime Minister for her speech on Friday and her statement in the House today. With record inward investment, record manufacturing output and record low unemployment for a generation, when does she think economic reality is going to dawn on the doomsters on the Opposition Benches, particularly when it comes to the economic prize that will be available once we have left the EU?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Macroeconomics
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): Unfortunately, the Opposition are turning their face away from what is actually happening in our economy: productivity up, employment up, borrowing down. We are seeing good results in our economy, but there is more we can be doing. I am optimistic about what we can achieve through our trade arrangements with the EU in the future, but also, as we go outside and become a much more outward-looking country, with an independent trade policy.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): What I have said about the draft withdrawal agreement is that the European Commission chose to put in it—it is a lengthy document—a particular reference to the issue of the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. That was the third option in the December joint report. The Taoiseach and I are both very clear that we want to resolve the issue using the first option in the report, notably the UK’s overall relationship with the European Union. There are ways in which all three options can be developed, including that third option, which is different from that produced by the European Commission, and that produced by the European Commission could not be accepted by the UK Government.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Victoria Grace Ford (Conservative, Centre-right): Competition policy is the glue that holds together all free trade agreements. Does the Prime Minister agree that the suggestion from the Labour party that it could somehow remain in the single market while running reckless through state aid policy is a fantasy fiction drama worthy of an Oscar?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): Obviously, while we are still members of the European Union, we are looking at maintaining our relationships within the EU and maintaining our obligations and rights as a member of the EU. One issue that will be looked at in relation to the withdrawal agreement is what happens to contracts that are in place at the point at which we leave and what arrangements will pertain to those contracts.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Richard Michael John Ogilvie Graham (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the balance and realism in the Prime Minister’s speech. To allay the concerns of those who have continually argued that the only deal available to us would be a clone of previous deals with other countries, will my right hon. Friend confirm today that both her Government and the European Commission’s preparations show clearly that the deal reached with us will be unique, bespoke and multi-tiered, and will confirm the continuing existence of many areas of co-operation between our two areas, while respecting the result of the referendum?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This is a relationship that we will be building across a number of areas. I have spoken specifically about economic partnership and in most detail about the goods trade between the EU and the UK in the future. There is the security partnership as well and our work on civil judicial co-operation. There is a whole range of areas in which we will be building a new relationship but a continuing good relationship with the EU, because we may be leaving the EU, but we are not leaving Europe.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The Opposition need to stop thinking in this binary fashion—that either you are in a customs union or you cannot have suitable customs arrangements. This is exactly the problem. We have set out very clearly the options that are available. I have elaborated on another aspect of the relationship—notably, the regulatory standards. These two go together in building that trade relationship, which means no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Law and Crime
Robert James MacGillivray Neill (Conservative, Centre-right): May I congratulate the Prime Minister on the pragmatic tone of her statement and her speech, which fits the natural tenor of our party, as well as our country? May I also congratulate her on her recognition of the importance of civil judicial co-operation in this matter, but will she accept that, consistent with the findings of the Justice Committee in the last Parliament, the Lugano convention arrangements are not a sufficient basis on which we should seek to go forward, as they are both more costly and slower than the existing procedures? We need something better than that.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): We will be looking very closely at the arrangements that we want to put in place in relation to civil judicial co-operation. What is interesting about the Lugano convention is that it shows that the European Union is willing to enter into arrangements with other countries, so there is no reason why we cannot do that once we have left the European Union.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Government Operations
Edward Julian Egerton Leigh (Conservative, Centre-right): Thank you for picking the succulent cherry at last, Mr Speaker. It seems to many of us that the Prime Minister’s calm good sense is moving the country from the gloomy valley of "Project Fear," peopled by the shades of former Prime Ministers, into the hopeful uplands of "Project Reality". What could be more unifying and more Conservative than her pragmatic approach of proceeding by sensible, pragmatic and moderate steps to re-establish the sovereignty of Parliament?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend; I think that is absolutely right. Negotiations are taking time. They have been set out, as we know, in article 50 for those two years. What is important is that we approach them with the right, pragmatic, calm approach, but recognising in all this the optimistic future that lies ahead for the United Kingdom.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): There was a time when the Liberal Democrats actively wanted a referendum on EU membership. We gave the people a referendum, they voted, and there will be no second referendum, no exit from Brexit; we are leaving the EU and delivering on the vote of the people.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately (Conservative, Centre-right): May I thank the Prime Minister for her clear-sighted approach—as opposed to one that sees our negotiations with the EU through foggy red lenses of a battle between socialism and capitalism—and commitment to securing an agreement that is good for the whole UK and that will endure the test of time?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend has raised an important point that nobody else has referenced: this agreement needs to endure. The worst thing would be if we came to an agreement that in a few years was beginning to unravel. It is important that the agreement be an arrangement and partnership with the EU that will, as she says, stand the test of time.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I discussed with President Tusk last week the approach that the UK thinks appropriate, and I hope that we can have a good and open dialogue in our future negotiations. I have set out my proposals for the UK’s future partnership, and we look forward to hearing from the EU what its proposals are.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Andrew James Bridgen (Conservative, Centre-right): Canada did not pay anything for its comprehensive free trade deal with the EU. Given that we will be the biggest export market for EU goods after we leave and are offering a very generous divorce package, contingent on a deal, does my right hon. Friend agree that we should be expecting and demanding a much better deal than Canada got?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I am clear, and have said several times, that the relationship we already have with the EU is such that we are in a different position from Canada. We can have a free trade agreement and economic partnership that goes well beyond that which the EU negotiated with Canada.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Ross Thomson (Conservative, Centre-right): In her statement, my right hon. Friend reaffirmed her commitment to strengthening the UK as we leave the EU. Does she agree therefore that, if the Scottish Government are to be true to their word about reaching an agreement with her Government, they should immediately drop their plans for a dangerous and unwelcome EU continuity Bill, which is driving a sledgehammer through the devolution settlement?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Government Operations
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I agree with my hon. Friend that the continuity Bills are unnecessary. What everybody needs to do—and certainly what we as a Government are doing—is focus on getting the arrangements right, particularly in relation to clause 11, and carry on negotiating to make sure we get it right for the future.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I have referred to the interests that both the UK and the European Union have in our maintaining a close relationship with Euratom in the future. Membership of Euratom is an integral part of membership of the European Union, and we are coming out of Euratom as we are coming out of the EU, but, as the hon. Lady will know, we are making arrangements to ensure that we can maintain that close relationship.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Rebecca Faye Clark (Pow) (Conservative, Centre-right): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I was just about to give up Much as I love gardening, I do not grow cherries, but if I did, I would want to pick them, and if I had a surplus I would want to trade them, openly and fairly. Does the Prime Minister agree that we need a balance, supporting a wider range of sectors than other free trade agreements? Does she agree that that is in both our interests and that we must have fair and open competition for everyone?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I congratulate my hon. Friend on her entrepreneurial spirit. She is absolutely right. We want to ensure that there is fair and free competition. I have referred to binding commitments in relation to state aid and competition because I think it important that if we are to have that free trade, we are able to do so on a basis that is truly, fairly competitive.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The answer to the hon. Gentleman’s question is that the Foreign Secretary has not said that. He is absolutely clear that there will be no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. That is the position of the Government, and that is what we are working on. We have set out proposals, and I look forward to discussing them with the Commission and the Irish Government.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Jeremy John Elton Lefroy (Conservative, Centre-right): Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. I am not sure that my family would say that. May I thank my right hon. Friend for two things in particular? The first is her absolute upholding of the United Kingdom—our United Kingdom—and our internal trade within our United Kingdom. The second is her point about the frictionless border. In my area of the west midlands, that is incredibly important. We are manufacturing exporters, and we rely on "just in time" deliveries to enable us to export our fine products around the world.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: Foreign Trade
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The point about the importance of the integrated supply chains that we now see across the UK and the rest of the European Union has been made to me, and to others in the Government, by businesses. That is precisely why I said what I did in my speech about regulatory standards. Many businesses have made it clear that, to maintain those supply chains, they need to be able to operate on the basis of the same regulatory standards. That is why we want to have that frictionless border, and why we have made proposals to do just that.
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Alberto Castrenze Costa (Conservative, Centre-right): Yesterday, Italy had its general election. My hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) and I met Luigi Di Maio, leader of the Five Star Movement, whose party has led in the results today. Over the last two years, Mr Di Maio and I have corresponded; he was my guest here in Parliament, and I invited the Foreign Secretary to meet him two years ago. Given the Prime Minister’s commitment to ensuring that this country has maximum access to the single market while coming out of free movement, which is exactly what Mr Di Maio has suggested Britain should have, should she not meet him as soon as possible?
UK/EU Future Economic Partnership — House of Commons, 2018-03-05
Topic: International Affairs
Andrew Theakstone Percy (Conservative, Centre-right): Last week, Siemens announced a £200-million investment that will create 700 jobs in Goole. That proves the value of the economy of the north, so as the Prime Minister negotiates for Brexit, as well as obviously looking out for the interests of Northern Ireland, the City and Scotland, will she look out for the interests of the north? That requires approaching this process with flexibility, but it also means standing up for the voters of the north, who voted in huge numbers to leave, and who, since the referendum, have been patronised and insulted as being too thick, too northern or too racist.