Priti Patel: We need details of new EU deal

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Shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel urges the government to provide details on the new deal with the European Union and to face scrutiny in the House of Commons. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I'm all for, I'm absolutely all for good working relations with European countries and of course

00:06that was part of the TCA which was the withdrawal agreement when we left the EU and the transitional

00:11arrangements that were put in place. We've always known that you learn from what works,

00:16what doesn't work and that needed to be amended over time and all of that work would come

00:21inevitably. So we welcome that but there's a big but here, we haven't seen the details.

00:27So for example, will we have to bring in new legislation in Parliament because we're speaking

00:32about food, food standards, phytosanitary checks for example, you know that also will be subject

00:38to the European Court of Justice which is a court not in this country which is based in Luxembourg.

00:44They're going to oversee that process so that's going to involve some domestic legislation.

00:49We didn't hear any of that from the government so my fundamental point is that we need to

00:54A see the detail but we need the government to be honest about the implications of all

00:59of this, how it's going to work, tell us how it's going to work rather than just say it's

01:04fantastic, there's a press release, let's go and drink some champagne which is clearly what

01:07they were doing yesterday.

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