CPTPP: Conclusion of Negotiations - 17th April 2023

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Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-04-17/debates/F557EE9B-F3A3-48ED-BE32-BBA625809265/CPTPPConclusionofNegotiations

17:01 Richard Thomson (Gordon) (SNP)

Previous Ministers—including the previous Brexit Secretary, no less—failed to understand the important role that the port of Dover plays in UK imports and exports. I would not normally consider this necessary, but I feel that I may have to explain, for the benefit of some of the sedentary chunterers across the Chamber, that the Pacific is quite some distance away from the UK, which is why even the Government’s own forecasts are predicting that the UK emissions of greenhouse gases will increase as a result of this deal.

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