Trade Bill - Second Reading

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:07 pm on 11 September 2018.

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Photo of Lord Liddle Lord Liddle Labour 3:07, 11 September 2018

Surely one of the main concerns of the manufacturing industry is what will happen to rules of origin in British trade agreements with countries such as South Korea, when the EU rule is that 55% of cars have to be manufactured domestically yet we manufacture only 40% of our content domestically. Surely this is highly relevant to Brexit and the economic damage that Brexit could cause to a sector of our economy on which 1 million jobs depend. Therefore, to say that the Bill has nothing to do with Brexit is very strange.