00:00Well, look, all trade deals are a balance. You have to give stuff, they have to give stuff.
00:07And it's a matter of what you want. If you remember back to the Brexit debate, Michelle,
00:12those people who are arguing for Brexit have, in effect, got what they said at the time. Because
00:18you'll remember one of their arguments was, look, we actually have the same regulations
00:23about our food standards and sanitary and phytosanitary controls as the EU at the moment.
00:30So there's no way, the Brexiters used to say, that they will impose border controls on the
00:36stuff that we want to export to Europe. Well, unfortunately, they did. But now what we've
00:42managed to negotiate is saying to them, look, we have the same regulations. Why don't we drop the
00:49border controls? And the EU's agreed to that. And that's going to be worth millions to our exporters.
00:56Because one of the things that the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee did after Brexit
01:01was to actually bring in all the exporters who were saying, we're having terrible time because
01:07our langoustine are being blocked at the border. They then go off before we can get them into French
01:14restaurants. Our trade is being blocked and the food is going off. Now, all of that won't happen now.
01:20That's that is a great plus. Oh, Barry Gardner. Yes, that's fine. We can get rid of some of these
01:25checks, as you're suggesting. But people at home will be shouting out. But hold on a second,
01:29because the flip side of that was that essentially now we have to bow down to their rules, their
01:34regulations. And we don't essentially have a veto on what those are. We don't because we haven't joined
01:39the customs union. So at any stage, let's say the EU... Why don't they align with our rules? Why did
01:45we have to match theirs? Well, they have. Our rules are actually the same. That's the point.
01:50So we are aligned. And we're simply saying, because we're aligned, we don't need to do this.
01:55But in the future, at any stage, if the EU were to suddenly lower their requirements on food
02:02regulations, we could say, uh-oh, no, sorry, we're actually going to now come out of this because
02:07you've changed the rules of the game. Do you share that optimism? Sarah, you?
02:13This is absolute nonsense. I mean, Barry's talking about langoustine and getting them across the
02:18border. Well, I can tell you that my constituents, you know, do not have enough money in their
02:22pocket to be buying langoustine or being in complete notes. You've had to say, Barry, my turn.
02:27This is an absolute betrayal of Brexit. It'll come to no surprise to anyone watching this
02:32programme that I was an advent Brexiteer. But Keir Starmer is taking us on a slow march back into
02:39Europe. He is absolutely betraying the will of the British people. Keir Starmer has called this
02:44a win-win deal. It's a lose-lose deal. He sold out the British workers with his Indian trade deal.
02:51He sold out the farmers with his US trade deal. And now he has completely sold out the British
02:57fitting industry. It is finished with this deal, let alone the fact that we will become closer
03:03aligned once again to the European Court of Justice, which we absolutely do not want. We have
03:09the best courts and the laws in the land in this country. We do not want to be aligned closer to
03:15them again. And all this talk about letting lorries through the border with Barry's langoustine on it
03:20without being checked. Well, that is just dragging us back towards EU regulation and checks that we
03:27don't want and red tape that we don't want.
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