MP for North East Bedfordshire, Richard Fuller gave the following statement to the Bedfordshire Bulletin, explaining his position on the vote to pass the government’s Brexit trade deal, for which he voted for.
The bill passed with 521 for to 73 votes against. 36 Labour MPs abstained on the vote, including the MP for Bedford and Kempston, Mohammad Yasin. Three Labour party MPs voted against.
MP Fuller said: “The Prime Minister confounded the expectations of many by delivering, before the end of the year, a comprehensive trade deal with the European Union.
“This trade deal represents a clean restart for our trading relations with our nearest neighbours and releasing our country to secure new trade deals in new markets as a sovereign country.”
He went on to say: “Ahead of the 2016 referendum, I published my reasons for supporting Leave, summarising that: Shaped by my life experiences and by my home town of Bedford, my heart and my head tell me that our future is better and more secure if we vote to leave the EU when the referendum is called because we will trade with a renewed ferocity in the growing markets of the world; our democratic future will be stronger; and we will be able to draw on all the world’s talents equally and without prejudice.”
“The government is using the mandate given in last December’s election to deliver on this vision.”
As the Prime Minister said today (December 30, 2020): “We are going to open a new chapter in our national story, striking free trade deals around the world and reasserting Global Britain as a liberal, outward-looking force for good. Detaching ourselves from the EU is only a prelude to the greater task of establishing our new role.”
“Let us all join together in this new endeavour.”
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