Leaving the EU

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:47 pm on 9 July 2018.

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Photo of Pat McFadden Pat McFadden Labour, Wolverhampton South East 3:47, 9 July 2018

On 18 December, the Prime Minister told the House:

“We will be going in and negotiating for services and for goods.”—[Official Report, 18 December 2017; Vol. 633, c. 761.]

We trade at an annual surplus of £28 billion in services with the European Union. Why, other than for reasons of internal politics and ideology within the Conservative party, has she taken the profit-making trade aspect of the UK economy and thrown it under the Brexit bus?