00:00Mr Speaker, President Trump's new national security strategy is a deeply alarming document.
00:08Quite apart from the irony of President Trump accusing others of trampling on basic principles
00:14of democracy, it repeats far-right tropes of civilisational erasure and threatens that
00:22the US government will cultivate resistance in Europe.
00:27No wonder Vladimir Putin has welcomed that strategy.
00:32So will the Prime Minister pick up the phone and make it clear to President Trump that any
00:38attempts to interfere with our democracy are totally unacceptable?
00:43On the question of Europe and President Trump's comments, what I see is a strong Europe united
00:52behind Ukraine and united behind our long-standing values of freedom and democracy, and I will
00:58always stand up for those values and those freedoms.
01:02President Trump's new national security strategy is a deeply alarming document.
01:09Quite apart from the irony of President Trump accusing others of trampling on basic principles
01:15of democracy, it repeats far-right tropes of civilisational erasure and threatens that the US government
01:24will cultivate resistance in Europe.
01:28No wonder Vladimir Putin has welcomed that strategy.
01:33So will the Prime Minister pick up the phone and make it clear to President Trump that any
01:39attempts to interfere with our democracy are totally unacceptable?
01:46Can I join him in congratulating Lando for the incredible win?
01:52I went down to a Woking on Monday to see some of the team at McLaren, and they were all wearing
01:57the pride that that brought with them.
02:00On the question of Europe and President Trump's comments, what I see is a strong Europe united
02:09behind Ukraine and united behind our long-standing values of freedom and democracy, and I will
02:15always stand up for those values and those freedoms.
02:18Ed Durby?
02:19Mr Speaker, I did not hear about standing up to President Trump.
02:23If we are going to stand up to President Trump, we do need to strengthen our ties with Europe,
02:28not just on defence but on the economy too.
02:31The truth is that this government will not succeed unless it gets our economy growing strongly
02:37again, and the best way to do that is a customs union with Europe.
02:44The Prime Minister's chief economic adviser knows it, the Deputy Prime Minister knows it,
02:50and yesterday the Labour Chair of the Treasury Select Committee showed she knows it too when
02:56she backed our bill.
02:59Does the Prime Minister fear that, if he keeps opposing a customs union, in 12 months' time,
03:06he will not be standing there?
03:11Well, Mr Speaker, we have got a close relationship with the EU through our reset earlier this
03:16year.
03:17And yes, I do want a closer relationship with the one we have got at the moment where we are
03:21moving towards that.
03:23We do have manifested commitments on issues such as single market, customs union and freedom
03:28of movement.
03:29But I would gently point this out that, having now done significant trade deals with other
03:34countries, including the US and India, which is hugely important to the JLR workforce and
03:42on pharma, it is not now sensible to unravel what is effectively the best deal with the
03:48US.
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