Results 1–20 of 68 for brexit speaker:Sammy Wilson

Income Tax (Charge) ( 6 Mar 2024)

Sammy Wilson: ...were never considered, to the ongoing billions being spent on net zero in the belief that, somehow or other, we can alter the world’s climate, to the failure to take up the opportunities of Brexit and the staggering tax burden under which the economy is now stumbling and failing to grow. All that is the result of decisions that were made by the Government, and this Budget is a...

Northern Ireland Executive Formation (31 Jan 2024)

Sammy Wilson: ...by law to adhere to and implement laws that are made in Brussels, which they will have no say over, no ability to amend and no ability to stop. That is a result of this spineless, weak-kneed and Brexit-betraying Government refusing to take on the EU and its interference in Northern Ireland. The Government have admitted that there will be divergence in the future. On page 17 of the Command...

Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill (24 Jan 2024)

Sammy Wilson: ...on trying to put the failure of their negotiations with the EU behind them because they have so much internal division with their own party about how they have failed to deliver on the promises of Brexit, but cementing this agreement into the constitutional position of Northern Ireland is not good for a Government who claimed that they wanted to take back sovereignty, and it is not...

Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill (18 Dec 2023)

Sammy Wilson: ...forward this Bill, first because we should ask: why has it taken so long? The Conservatives had this issue in their manifesto in 2017, they boasted in the 2019 general election that they would use Brexit freedoms to bring in animal welfare measures, and now, at the end of 2023, we are finally seeing a Bill emerge. There is no doubt about the need for this protection. Members have outlined...

Rates of tobacco products duty (22 Nov 2023)

Sammy Wilson: ...experience in the Treasury is now going to bear some fruit in our country. The models contained in many studies conducted by, for instance, the Cardiff macroeconomics research group, the Centre for Brexit Policy, and the Growth Foundation have already shown that a low-tax economy can benefit in terms of growth, which then helps to increase tax revenues, reduce debt and finance public...

Debate on the Address: [1st Day] ( 7 Nov 2023)

Sammy Wilson: ...to agree policy and arrangements, and we can do what is best for Britain. I am glad the Government intend to build on that. People think that we do not make anything any longer as a result of Brexit, but only this week we find that we are the seventh biggest manufacturing nation in the world, having overtaken France, so there are good things. I am glad the Government intend to build on...

Northern Ireland Budget (No. 2) Bill (10 Jul 2023)

Sammy Wilson: .... Although I made a promise to the Minister of State when we discussed this on Thursday that we would try to stick to the debate on the budget and try not to wander into the Windsor framework, Brexit and the Northern Ireland protocol, the issue of—

Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill (24 May 2023)

Sammy Wilson: For those of us who supported Brexit, it is important that we are able to tailor our own laws to suit the circumstances of our own country. Can the Solicitor General tell me, however, how this situation is better for people in Northern Ireland? Given that we have been left in the position of being an annex to the EU, many of these changes do not apply.

Civil Service Impartiality ( 6 Mar 2023)

Sammy Wilson: The impartiality of senior civil servants was called into question a long time ago during the Brexit debate and the events subsequent to that, but these negotiations obviously did not take place the morning after Sue Gray resigned—they have been going on for some time. I suppose the question for the House is this: what sensitive political issues was she involved in during those...

Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill (22 Feb 2023)

Sammy Wilson: ...for the citizens of our own country. Yet, as a result of the protocol, Northern Ireland—and he knows it—has not gained the benefits that he and I campaigned for and that those who voted for Brexit wished to have. We are still left within the embrace of Brussels because of the imposition of EU law. That fundamental problem is at the heart of the action we have taken. I have heard many...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill: Clause 1 - Import prohibition (25 Jan 2023)

Sammy Wilson: ...that you will stop me if I deviate from the Bill too far with this issue, Sir Mark, but it is yet another example of the position we have remained in, as a result of the inadequate negotiations on Brexit, impinging on the rest of the United Kingdom. Sometimes people think that this is only a Northern Ireland issue. It is not; the loophole regarding what happens in Northern Ireland can...

Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill: New Clause 1 - “Assimilated law” (18 Jan 2023)

Sammy Wilson: The Minister is right that the whole point of Brexit was to take control of our own laws. She is also right that there needs to be a single set of laws across the United Kingdom. But the Bill makes it clear that we will not have a single set of laws across the United Kingdom, because a wide range of laws in Northern Ireland are exempt from the provisions of the Bill. Furthermore, in future...

Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill — [Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] ( 5 Dec 2022)

Sammy Wilson: ...are cognisant of the fact that we have not used the full time every day. I would also have thought that this legislation would be a priority for the Government. They dearly want to show that Brexit has worked, and Ministers have repeatedly been asked to give us examples of some of the benefits of Brexit. Well, here is a Bill that illustrates the benefits that we as a nation can obtain from...

Prayers - [Mr Speaker in the Chair] : The Growth Plan (23 Sep 2022)

Sammy Wilson: ...economic growth in the United Kingdom, which will increase standards of living, increase employment, help to raise revenue for public services and reduce the national debt. I only hope that the Brexit freedoms that he talks about, once we are free of the Northern Ireland protocol, will lead to investment zones and regulatory reform in Northern Ireland. Will the Chancellor consider two...

Northern Ireland Protocol Bill: Clause 7 - Regulation of goods: option to choose between dual routes (19 Jul 2022)

Sammy Wilson: ...arrangements—and in a way that, as we have heard, would exclude Unionists because the SDLP has now adopted majoritarianism with regard to the Northern Ireland Assembly. A comparison was made with Brexit. Brexit was a majority decision. It was not a majority decision in Northern Ireland; it was a majority decision of the people of the United Kingdom as a whole. A referendum was held...

Northern Ireland Protocol Bill: Clause 4 - Movement of goods (including customs): excluded Protocol provision (13 Jul 2022)

Sammy Wilson: ...as a way forward, it remains resolute that it will not do an agreement with the UK. Of course, we could align ourselves totally with the EU veterinary regulations, but then what is the point of Brexit? If we did that, who would ensure that we abided by those regulations? The European Court of Justice. Again, we see what the aim and objective would be. If we go down that route, we will...

Northern Ireland Protocol Bill: Clause 1 - Overview of main provisions (13 Jul 2022)

Sammy Wilson: Does my right hon. Friend accept that Brexit was all about the United Kingdom’s relationship with Europe, not about relationships within the United Kingdom, and therefore it did not fall within the scope of the Belfast agreement? In response to the claim that article 16 is the way forward, would he accept, given the nature of the damage the protocol has caused, that even if article 16 were...

EU Retained Law (22 Jun 2022)

Sammy Wilson: As someone who supported Brexit, I welcome the statement today and the fact that the Government are going to monitor and identify ways in which we can make our economy more dynamic, more innovative and more competitive. But as a Unionist, I have concerns about the statement. The regulatory freedom that is being sought cannot apply to many aspects of law in Northern Ireland, and Northern...

Household Energy Bills: VAT (11 Jan 2022)

Sammy Wilson: I am glad that the hon. Member appreciates one of the benefits of Brexit, namely that we now have the option of reducing VAT—and I do not understand why the Government will not do that—but does he recognise that as a result of the flawed deal in Northern Ireland and the fact that the Northern Ireland protocol leaves Northern Ireland under the EU VAT regime, any reduction in VAT could not...

Prime Minister: Engagements ( 5 Jan 2022)

Sammy Wilson: ...great difficulty with their energy bills. Some 30% of those bills is actually driven by the Government, in the form of VAT and various green levies. Now that we have left the EU, can we use our Brexit freedom to at least review the VAT on those bills? Given that some of the green levies are spent on madcap ideas, such as subsidising Drax B power station to the tune of £1 billion a year...


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