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Meeting of the Parliament 16 December 2020

16 Dec 2020 · S5 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Portfolio Question Time
Trade Arrangements (Post-Brexit)
Constitution, Europe and External Affairs
Ballantyne, Michelle Ind South Scotland Watch on SPTV

Although I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer, the reality is that the democratic decision to resign the UK’s membership of the EU was supported by more than 1 million Scottish voters, and that we officially left the EU in January of this year.

Therefore, does the cabinet secretary want a trade deal that returns control of our territorial fishing waters and gives us sovereignty over supporting jobs in Scotland, or is he encouraging Scottish National Party MPs to vote against any deal that is placed before Parliament in the final days available and, by default, support an end to the transition period with no deal in place?

In the same item of business

5. Michelle Ballantyne (South Scotland) (Ind) Ind
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on which post-Brexit trading arrangements between the United Kingdom and European Union would be best for...
The Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, Europe and External Affairs (Michael Russell) SNP
The best arrangement for Scotland in trading with the EU is to do so as a member of the EU. Independence is therefore the answer to Michelle Ballantyne’s que...
Michelle Ballantyne Ind
Although I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer, the reality is that the democratic decision to resign the UK’s membership of the EU was supported by ...
Michael Russell SNP
The number of people who voted non-Brexit parties into the Scottish Parliament in 2016 was far greater than the number who voted for Brexit parties. I am sor...
Anas Sarwar (Glasgow) (Lab) Lab
The cabinet secretary and I are in full agreement that the best thing for trade would not be Tory Brexit chaos; it would be—if we have Brexit at all—alignmen...
Michael Russell SNP
I know that Anas Sarwar is new to his portfolio, but there is no such thing as the UK single market. There is an internal market in the UK, but a “single mar...