UK Departure from EU

Part of Scotland – in the House of Commons at on 13 September 2023.

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Photo of Patrick Grady Patrick Grady Scottish National Party, Glasgow North

We had a really good trading relationship with the European Union—it was called membership—and 78% of people in Glasgow North, and 62% of people across Scotland, voted to retain it. If Brexit is really delivering the successes that the Secretary of State says it is, why does he think the polls show that those figures would be even higher if the people of Scotland had the choice again?

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