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Good afternoon. It is a pleasure to
be with you this afternoon in Bolton | 0:00:23 | 0:00:31 | |
and I want first to thank Airbus for
the hospitality. This company is a | 0:00:31 | 0:00:38 | |
great success story, a success story
for Wales, for the United Kingdom | 0:00:38 | 0:00:42 | |
and for Europe. This is the biggest
private-sector employer here in this | 0:00:42 | 0:00:51 | |
place but with two fifths of workers
commuting every day from homes in | 0:00:51 | 0:00:55 | |
England and, of course, Airbus is
part of the European enterprise that | 0:00:55 | 0:00:59 | |
is now operating over five
continents and employing people from | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
more than 130 different
nationalities. It is a vivid example | 0:01:02 | 0:01:08 | |
from the business world of how
diversity in unity can make for a | 0:01:08 | 0:01:13 | |
global success. And it is those same
characteristics that have very much | 0:01:13 | 0:01:21 | |
defined the success of the United
Kingdom over the years. The | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
different nations that make up our
country have had a long, often | 0:01:24 | 0:01:28 | |
uneasy, history. The castle is just
a few miles down the road from here | 0:01:28 | 0:01:37 | |
remind us of ancient quarrels, but
the shared experience and solidarity | 0:01:37 | 0:01:43 | |
of our formation at times of great
success and grave danger alike have | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
come to represent one of the most
powerful and enduring symbols of | 0:01:47 | 0:01:52 | |
freedom, liberty and democracy
anywhere in the world, and the | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
proudest citizen of Aberdeen,
Plymouth, Coleraine or indeed | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
Brighton, Kemptown huge pride in
also being part of the United | 0:02:00 | 0:02:04 | |
Kingdom, a united kingdom greater
than the sum of its parts. As we | 0:02:04 | 0:02:11 | |
prepare to leave the EU, preserving
and strengthening that union of the | 0:02:11 | 0:02:16 | |
United Kingdom matters more than
ever. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:23 | |
As we negotiate a new partnership
with our friends and neighbours in | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
Europe and forge a new role for the
United Kingdom in the world, we must | 0:02:26 | 0:02:30 | |
work for the future that fosters
wealth creation, opportunity and | 0:02:30 | 0:02:35 | |
innovation in every part of the
United Kingdom, and which | 0:02:35 | 0:02:40 | |
strengthens the sense of security,
belonging and solidarity in all | 0:02:40 | 0:02:45 | |
communities, building a country that
really does work for everyone. We | 0:02:45 | 0:02:50 | |
are at a crossroads in our history,
we face a choice. The choice that | 0:02:50 | 0:02:55 | |
represents the difference between a
prosperous, secure nation that is | 0:02:55 | 0:02:59 | |
united at home and strong abroad,
and a broader country, divided at | 0:02:59 | 0:03:05 | |
home and eat weaker player on the
global stage. This choice is not | 0:03:05 | 0:03:14 | |
about whether we leave the European
Union. As many of you will know, I'm | 0:03:14 | 0:03:19 | |
bloated and campaign very hard to
remain in the EU, as did many other | 0:03:19 | 0:03:26 | |
people in this country. But I
recognise, as indeed do are 27 | 0:03:26 | 0:03:31 | |
European partners, that the people
of the United Kingdom took a | 0:03:31 | 0:03:36 | |
democratic decision to leave the
European Union and that is what we | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
must now focus our energies on
delivering, seeking both to minimise | 0:03:39 | 0:03:44 | |
the risks and to seize the
opportunities. The choice is | 0:03:44 | 0:03:48 | |
therefore not whether we believe but
how we choose to do so. We could | 0:03:48 | 0:03:55 | |
leave as a nation divided, a country
split, an economy disjointed, | 0:03:55 | 0:04:00 | |
struggling to forge a unified
consensus on the way ahead. But | 0:04:00 | 0:04:05 | |
there are opportunities as well,
opportunities we can see is if we | 0:04:05 | 0:04:10 | |
come together comedy night and
develop into that stronger global | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
Britain, which we can be. There were
many different reasons why people | 0:04:14 | 0:04:21 | |
voted to leave the EU in 2016, but
reflecting on that campaign, I think | 0:04:21 | 0:04:29 | |
that above all else, people
throughout the country sought to | 0:04:29 | 0:04:34 | |
regain a feeling of control, not
just control over our laws, but over | 0:04:34 | 0:04:39 | |
our lives to the people we elect
into office. When you talk to people | 0:04:39 | 0:04:45 | |
on the doorstep, what you find is
that vote was expressing not just a | 0:04:45 | 0:04:50 | |
rejection of membership of the EU,
but the demand to bring | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
decision-making into accountability
closer to home, to restore a sense | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
of belonging in communities, a sense
of connection between the electorate | 0:04:58 | 0:05:05 | |
and the elected. Yes, we had to
ensure that breaks it means more | 0:05:05 | 0:05:11 | |
power is going to be devolved
governments and not fewer. But I | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
believe that to renew that sense of
connection between citizen and | 0:05:15 | 0:05:20 | |
government, we need to press on as
well with a broader issue to deliver | 0:05:20 | 0:05:25 | |
greater freedom, more power to act
to cities, towns and counties in all | 0:05:25 | 0:05:31 | |
parts of the United Kingdom. I hope
the devolved governments will choose | 0:05:31 | 0:05:37 | |
to take that approach as well. After
all, by someone in Broughton or | 0:05:37 | 0:05:43 | |
Llandudno, Cardiff can seem as
distant as London. From the | 0:05:43 | 0:05:49 | |
perspective of Orkney, prior cheese
made with very different from those | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
of central Scotland. Our aim should
be nothing less than to see our | 0:05:51 | 0:05:57 | |
entire country coming together and
having their voices heard. It means | 0:05:57 | 0:06:03 | |
people here in Wales as well as in
Scotland, Northern Ireland and | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
England, and it means our villages,
towns, cities and communities | 0:06:07 | 0:06:12 | |
throughout the UK all having a voice
as well. At the heart of the | 0:06:12 | 0:06:19 | |
Conservative political tradition is
both patria tourism, loyalty to the | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
special shared union of the United
Kingdom, but also a commitment not | 0:06:22 | 0:06:29 | |
just to individual rights but to the
vital importance of family and | 0:06:29 | 0:06:35 | |
community, of village, town and
county, in enabling individual men | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
and women to find meaning, value and
fulfilment in their lives. As Edmund | 0:06:39 | 0:06:45 | |
Burke put it more than 200 years
ago, to be attached to the | 0:06:45 | 0:06:50 | |
subdivision, to love the little
platoon we belong to in society is | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
the first principle, the germ, as it
were, public affections. It is the | 0:06:54 | 0:07:00 | |
first link by which we proceeded to
of our country and of mankind. And I | 0:07:00 | 0:07:06 | |
suspect that most of those here
derive our sense of who we are from | 0:07:06 | 0:07:12 | |
many different sources, from our
family, from where we live, perhaps | 0:07:12 | 0:07:18 | |
from a sports club or choral Society
or community group we support, in | 0:07:18 | 0:07:22 | |
many cases from our religious faith
and of course, from our nation. In | 0:07:22 | 0:07:28 | |
the United Kingdom, we know there is
no contradiction between being an | 0:07:28 | 0:07:34 | |
ardent Welsh Scottish patriot and
being a committed supporter of the | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
Union. If I needed a reminder of
that truth, it was when the | 0:07:38 | 0:07:43 | |
Secretary of State for Scotland was
gloating to me about the rugby | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
result on Saturday. Looking back to
last century, I think that my party | 0:07:46 | 0:07:52 | |
was too slow to recognise the
increasing calls for devolution and | 0:07:52 | 0:07:59 | |
decentralisation represented a
genuine shift in public mood. I | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
think if dealer look at our record
in government in the last eight | 0:08:02 | 0:08:07 | |
years, we have demonstrated we got
that message. The two Scotland's | 0:08:07 | 0:08:12 | |
Acts in 2012 and 2016, have made
Hollywood one of the most powerful | 0:08:12 | 0:08:16 | |
parliament of its kind in the world.
City deals in Scotland, backed by UK | 0:08:16 | 0:08:24 | |
Government spending, have now been
agreed or committed to for all of | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
Scotland's southern cities. That
Wales Act is delivering a better | 0:08:27 | 0:08:34 | |
devolution settlement for Wales.
City deals for Cardiff and Swansea | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
and the future in North Wales growth
deal are supporting industries and | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
jobs of tomorrow. The passage of
English votes for English laws at | 0:08:42 | 0:08:48 | |
Westminster means MPs representing
English voters rightly have the | 0:08:48 | 0:08:53 | |
final say on issues which matter
directly to them and to their | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
constituents. We have created new,
combined authorities with elected | 0:08:57 | 0:09:04 | |
mayors across England, but in power
firmly in the hands of local people | 0:09:04 | 0:09:07 | |
in the West Midlands, the West of
England, Cambridge, greater | 0:09:07 | 0:09:11 | |
Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield.
This government will continue to | 0:09:11 | 0:09:17 | |
strive to restore devolution in
Northern Ireland, and will remain | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
fully committed to the Belfast
Agreement. We will continue to | 0:09:21 | 0:09:25 | |
govern in the interests of all parts
of the community in Northern Ireland | 0:09:25 | 0:09:30 | |
and to uphold the totality of the
relationships embodied in that | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
agreement. Both East, west and
north, south. And we shall stand by | 0:09:34 | 0:09:42 | |
the commitments in the joint report
between the UK and the EU that was | 0:09:42 | 0:09:47 | |
agreed in December last year. But
while we can take pride in that | 0:09:47 | 0:09:54 | |
record of progress in decentralising
power, we can and should go further | 0:09:54 | 0:10:01 | |
to drive forward both the economic
and political regeneration of our | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
country. So we are working with both
devolved and local authorities to | 0:10:05 | 0:10:10 | |
help them coordinate their own
economic plans with our UK wide | 0:10:10 | 0:10:15 | |
national industrial strategy,
bringing together local businesses | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
and leaders to deliver growth,
enterprise and job creation in every | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
part of our country. We are
supporting combined authorities | 0:10:21 | 0:10:26 | |
located around our English cities to
adopt elected mayors should they | 0:10:26 | 0:10:30 | |
wish to do so. We will bring forward
a borderlands growth deal, including | 0:10:30 | 0:10:35 | |
all the councils on both the
Scottish and English sides of the | 0:10:35 | 0:10:40 | |
border, to help secure prosperity in
southern Scotland. We will build on | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
the future North Wales growth deal,
but also fostering opportunities | 0:10:43 | 0:10:49 | |
between Welsh cities and the rest of
the UK, for example by linking | 0:10:49 | 0:10:55 | |
economic development opportunities
in Cardiff, Newport and Bristol. And | 0:10:55 | 0:11:00 | |
we have committed to looking at the
city deal for Belfast. At the same | 0:11:00 | 0:11:08 | |
time, we are unapologetically
committed to the constitutional | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
integrity of the United Kingdom, so,
alongside those initiatives to bring | 0:11:11 | 0:11:15 | |
more power is closer to the people,
we are working to ensure that the | 0:11:15 | 0:11:20 | |
institutions and the power of the UK
are used in a way that benefits | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
people in every part of our country.
For a country that not only has a | 0:11:24 | 0:11:31 | |
shared past, but continues today to
draw strengths from all parts of the | 0:11:31 | 0:11:36 | |
Union, there are more than 31,000
United Kingdom civil servants based | 0:11:36 | 0:11:41 | |
here in Wales, including in our new
UK Government hub in Cardiff. Eight | 0:11:41 | 0:11:49 | |
out of ten goods lorries leaving
Wales go to the rest of the UK, | 0:11:49 | 0:11:56 | |
highlighting the importance of the
United Kingdom- wide market. | 0:11:56 | 0:12:01 | |
Bombarding a's factory in Belfast
has a supply chain of 800 companies | 0:12:01 | 0:12:07 | |
throughout the UK and Ireland,
supporting thousands of highly | 0:12:07 | 0:12:12 | |
skilled jobs. And it is from the
Department for International | 0:12:12 | 0:12:18 | |
Development headquarters in East
Kilbride, Scotland, that the UK's | 0:12:18 | 0:12:23 | |
International work to vaccinate
children against killer diseases, to | 0:12:23 | 0:12:27 | |
educate girls and provide clean
water and sanitation to people who | 0:12:27 | 0:12:32 | |
desperately needed, is driven. And
of course, are based on the Clyde, | 0:12:32 | 0:12:37 | |
home to thousands of shipbuilding
jobs, is central to the UK's defence | 0:12:37 | 0:12:41 | |
capabilities. Put simply, we are all
more prosperous and secure when we | 0:12:41 | 0:12:48 | |
work together for our common good as
one United Kingdom. Leaving the EU | 0:12:48 | 0:12:56 | |
presents many challenges for our
centuries-old union story, and | 0:12:56 | 0:13:00 | |
opportunities as well. And someone
to use this as an excuse to loosen | 0:13:00 | 0:13:06 | |
the ties that bind us together or
even sever them completely. I | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
believe such an outcome would lead
every one of our four nations both | 0:13:10 | 0:13:14 | |
weaker and crueller. The task before
us is not an easy one, it is | 0:13:14 | 0:13:21 | |
complex. How do we alone greater
control across England's Scotland, | 0:13:21 | 0:13:28 | |
Wales and Northern Ireland over the
things that affect them separately, | 0:13:28 | 0:13:31 | |
while preserving the things that
affect us all collectively, as we | 0:13:31 | 0:13:38 | |
return powers from Brussels to the
United Kingdom. How do we ensure | 0:13:38 | 0:13:43 | |
that a new wave of devolution
delivers for the people of Scotland, | 0:13:43 | 0:13:48 | |
Wales, England and Northern Ireland,
but at the same time, protects the | 0:13:48 | 0:13:53 | |
essence of our Union. For a start,
all the governments together have | 0:13:53 | 0:14:00 | |
agreed that we will need to have
frameworks that breakdown which | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
powers should sit where, once they
have returned from Brussels, and | 0:14:03 | 0:14:08 | |
that is a sensible and constructive
approach, because these powers are | 0:14:08 | 0:14:12 | |
not all the same. Some are very
obviously for the devolved | 0:14:12 | 0:14:18 | |
governments and parliaments to
exercise, and they don't need any | 0:14:18 | 0:14:22 | |
involvement on the UK- wide basis.
For example, the devolved | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
governments are best place to manage
the safety and quality of the water | 0:14:26 | 0:14:32 | |
people living their drink, as well
as looking after and caring for the | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
natural environment. At the same
time, there are other powers which | 0:14:34 | 0:14:44 | |
are, yes, for the devolved
government to shape according to the | 0:14:44 | 0:14:47 | |
needs and ambitions, and where they
don't need legislation to underpin | 0:14:47 | 0:14:51 | |
how what they do relates to the
other nations of the UK, but where | 0:14:51 | 0:14:55 | |
it would nevertheless still be in
everybody's interests to agree a | 0:14:55 | 0:15:00 | |
loose form of cooperation, perhaps a
memorandum of understanding between | 0:15:00 | 0:15:04 | |
the devolved and UK governments. For
instance, we will need to be able to | 0:15:04 | 0:15:10 | |
continue to work together on
important domestic policy areas. For | 0:15:10 | 0:15:15 | |
example, ensuring that a vital organ
that is donated by someone in one | 0:15:15 | 0:15:21 | |
part of the United Kingdom can still
be used transplant to treat a | 0:15:21 | 0:15:24 | |
patient in another part of the
Kingdom. Those powers should still | 0:15:24 | 0:15:33 | |
rightly be devolved, not
centralised, and that is the offer | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
we have put on the table. But on the
other hand, some powers are clearly | 0:15:35 | 0:15:41 | |
related to the UK as a whole and
will need to continue to apply in | 0:15:41 | 0:15:46 | |
the same way across all four
nations, in order to protect | 0:15:46 | 0:15:51 | |
consumers and businesses who buy and
sell across the UK. In all parts of | 0:15:51 | 0:15:55 | |
what we might call the United
Kingdom's Common Market. That market | 0:15:55 | 0:16:02 | |
is one of the fundamental
expressions of the constitutional | 0:16:02 | 0:16:05 | |
integrity that underpins our
existence as a union. The government | 0:16:05 | 0:16:10 | |
will protect that vital Common
Market of the UK. By retaining UK | 0:16:10 | 0:16:15 | |
frameworks were necessary, we will
retain our ability, not only to act | 0:16:15 | 0:16:21 | |
on the national interest when we
need to, but to do so with the unity | 0:16:21 | 0:16:26 | |
of purpose that places the
prosperity and security of other | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
citizens, no matter where they are
from or where they were born, to the | 0:16:29 | 0:16:34 | |
front. For example, at present, EU
law means that our farmers and other | 0:16:34 | 0:16:41 | |
food producers already to comply
with one set of package labelling | 0:16:41 | 0:16:44 | |
and hygiene rules. For different
sets of rules in different parts of | 0:16:44 | 0:16:51 | |
the UK would only it more ethical
than more expensive for a | 0:16:51 | 0:16:56 | |
cheesemaker in Monmouthshire to sell
to customers in Bristol, or body | 0:16:56 | 0:17:00 | |
cattle farmer in Aberdeen Shire to
sell his beef in Berwick-upon-Tweed. | 0:17:00 | 0:17:07 | |
These are everyday issues affecting
how people live their lives. They | 0:17:07 | 0:17:11 | |
are the issues that people in the UK
expect governments to get on and a | 0:17:11 | 0:17:16 | |
delay in a clear interest of
families and businesses in every | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
part of England's, Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland alike. So that | 0:17:19 | 0:17:26 | |
is entirely what the United Kingdom
government stands ready, waiting and | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
willing to do. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:39 | |
An to ensure that the factory can
continue to sell, that the family | 0:17:40 | 0:17:49 | |
firm in Swansea can continue to buy
supplies in Swindon, and customers | 0:17:49 | 0:17:54 | |
in Londonderry can still placed
orders in Leeds without any extra | 0:17:54 | 0:18:00 | |
red tape or expense. And I want to
say one thing for that. The Prime | 0:18:00 | 0:18:05 | |
Minister has been clear throughout
the negotiations with the European | 0:18:05 | 0:18:09 | |
Union that we want to preserve the
standard super tech employment and | 0:18:09 | 0:18:13 | |
workers' rights, to deliver consumer
protection and safeguard the | 0:18:13 | 0:18:20 | |
environment. That means keeping
these high standards right across | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
the whole of the United Kingdom, and
for our part as the United Kingdom | 0:18:23 | 0:18:28 | |
Government, we are committed to
working in partnership with the | 0:18:28 | 0:18:33 | |
devolved governments to ensure that
those standards are universal in all | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
four parts of our country. It is
fair to say that the road to agree | 0:18:36 | 0:18:41 | |
on how we go forward together has
not always been a smooth and | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
straight bond. Along with my
predecessors in the Cabinet Office | 0:18:44 | 0:18:49 | |
and the secretaries of State for
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland | 0:18:49 | 0:18:54 | |
have engage closely with the
devolved governments to understand | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
their concerns and respond to them.
They have been expressed clearly and | 0:18:57 | 0:19:04 | |
often forthrightly, but we have
continued to talk. Both that | 0:19:04 | 0:19:10 | |
political and official level, and
even more importantly, we have | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
continued to listen. The Prime
Minister's first visit after | 0:19:13 | 0:19:19 | |
entering Downing Street was to
Edinburgh. Two of my first phone | 0:19:19 | 0:19:24 | |
calls upon moving across to the
Cabinet Office last month were to | 0:19:24 | 0:19:28 | |
the Deputy First Minister of
Scotland and the First Minister of | 0:19:28 | 0:19:32 | |
Wales. I met them both in person
during my first weeks in this role | 0:19:32 | 0:19:40 | |
to underline my personal commitment
to engaging constructively, and | 0:19:40 | 0:19:44 | |
striking the agreement that is in
all interest. While they have always | 0:19:44 | 0:19:52 | |
acknowledged that the Government has
said we want to seek many of the | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
powers from Brussels go straight to
the devolved governments, there has | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
been a question throughout about
what our starting point should be. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:06 | |
Should those powers sit at a UK wide
level while we then agreed a future | 0:20:06 | 0:20:10 | |
framework? Or should be set at the
devolved level well be a dream -- | 0:20:10 | 0:20:18 | |
well be a great Davey? We have a
different point of view and to the | 0:20:18 | 0:20:32 | |
views expressed in the devolved
parliament. Just last week, we held | 0:20:32 | 0:20:37 | |
constructive discussions in London,
where we put forward a considerable | 0:20:37 | 0:20:41 | |
offer- a commitment that the vast
majority are powers returning from | 0:20:41 | 0:20:45 | |
Brussels will start off in
Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast and | 0:20:45 | 0:20:49 | |
19 Whitehall. And let me be in no
doubt, this would be a very big | 0:20:49 | 0:20:56 | |
change to the EU withdrawal build
bridges before Parliament, and a | 0:20:56 | 0:21:02 | |
significant step forward in these
negotiations. It but put on the face | 0:21:02 | 0:21:06 | |
of the bill what we have always said
would be our attention, wide ranging | 0:21:06 | 0:21:11 | |
devolution not just a way from
Brussels but from Westminster too. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
And if accepted, this offer put
beyond doubt our commitment to a | 0:21:14 | 0:21:21 | |
smooth and orderly departure from
the European Union in a way that | 0:21:21 | 0:21:26 | |
does not just respected the
devolution settlement, but | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
strengthens and enhances them. Our
postal is to amend the bill before | 0:21:29 | 0:21:37 | |
Parliament to make clear that both
frameworks at the agreed, the | 0:21:37 | 0:21:41 | |
presumption would know about speed
that powers returning from the EU | 0:21:41 | 0:21:44 | |
should set to devolved level.
Westminster would only be involved | 0:21:44 | 0:21:53 | |
where, to protect the Common Market
or to meet our international | 0:21:53 | 0:21:58 | |
obligations we need to pause, and I
stress pass, to give the Government | 0:21:58 | 0:22:02 | |
is time to design and put in place a
UK wide framework. We expect to be | 0:22:02 | 0:22:11 | |
able to secure agreement but the
devolved Government about what | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
framework should or should not apply
to each power. By Palestinian to be | 0:22:14 | 0:22:21 | |
returned to a UK wide framework, we
would retain the ability to | 0:22:21 | 0:22:25 | |
legislate to do that. Just as the
current tradition with an EU | 0:22:25 | 0:22:29 | |
withdrawal bill on releasing powers
are intended to be by consensus and | 0:22:29 | 0:22:36 | |
agreement, with the devolved
governments themselves, so we should | 0:22:36 | 0:22:39 | |
expect these new inverted power to
operate in the same way, by | 0:22:39 | 0:22:45 | |
consensus and by agreement. Norma
does proposed arrangement provides a | 0:22:45 | 0:22:52 | |
devolved Government from doing
anything that is already within | 0:22:52 | 0:22:56 | |
their competence. At the same time,
our proposal offers an important | 0:22:56 | 0:23:04 | |
protection. It would insure that
rather not to be an agreement, and | 0:23:04 | 0:23:08 | |
not having an agreement on a
framework would put at risk debates | 0:23:08 | 0:23:12 | |
being smooth and orderly exit that
we all need, the UK parliaments | 0:23:12 | 0:23:17 | |
could protect the essential
interests of businesses and | 0:23:17 | 0:23:19 | |
consumers in every part of the
kingdom. So, I am clear that is in | 0:23:19 | 0:23:26 | |
the interests of all parts of the
United Kingdom to a Greek Iborra/ | 0:23:26 | 0:23:31 | |
fully respects the devolved
settlement, that reserves the | 0:23:31 | 0:23:36 | |
integrity of the United Kingdom
market, and maintains the ability to | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
shoot an agreement with the European
Union on a future partnership. Our | 0:23:39 | 0:23:44 | |
new proposal is a reflection of the
seriousness of our desire to strike | 0:23:44 | 0:23:48 | |
agreements with the devolved
governments, our seriousness about | 0:23:48 | 0:23:53 | |
delivering more powers to Scotland,
Wales and Northern Ireland, while at | 0:23:53 | 0:23:58 | |
this time ensuring that there are no
new barriers for people across the | 0:23:58 | 0:24:02 | |
nations of the United Kingdom, so
families can continue to buy and | 0:24:02 | 0:24:06 | |
sell it freely, so businesses will
not face except the rocky sea at | 0:24:06 | 0:24:10 | |
higher cost, so people they minimal
destruction to their everyday lives, | 0:24:10 | 0:24:21 | |
and maximum security in the future.
I hope the talks that are Mounted | 0:24:21 | 0:24:25 | |
Regiment will lead in the coming
weeks to an agreement to take | 0:24:25 | 0:24:28 | |
forward ended the withdrawal build,
and which we can all welcome to | 0:24:28 | 0:24:34 | |
being to our mutual benefit. As we
look to our future, this is a | 0:24:34 | 0:24:39 | |
balance that, working together, we
can strike. A strong and fair | 0:24:39 | 0:24:43 | |
devolution settlement for our
devolved honours with power sitting | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
at the most important level. Common
frameworks where necessary with the | 0:24:46 | 0:24:53 | |
constitutional integrity if
attacked. By making that kind of | 0:24:53 | 0:24:56 | |
agreement, we can truly become that
United Kingdom we need to be here at | 0:24:56 | 0:25:04 | |
all, and that greater stronger
United Kingdom abroad. For that is | 0:25:04 | 0:25:08 | |
the task we now face, to build a
global Britain that is fit for the | 0:25:08 | 0:25:13 | |
future, they could not only to
tackle head-on future global | 0:25:13 | 0:25:17 | |
challenges, but confident it can
seize the opportunities available to | 0:25:17 | 0:25:22 | |
us, and so we do speak and act on
the world stage, we do so with one | 0:25:22 | 0:25:28 | |
authoritative voice that both
reflects and represents the | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
interests of all four nations. A
country that has the strength and | 0:25:30 | 0:25:36 | |
flexibility to survive and even
thrive on that international stage, | 0:25:36 | 0:25:42 | |
and without considerable strength, I
am confident that that future can be | 0:25:42 | 0:25:46 | |
secure and prosperous. After all, we
at the sixth largest economy in the | 0:25:46 | 0:25:51 | |
world, a permanent member of the
United Nations Security Council, the | 0:25:51 | 0:25:57 | |
biggest European defence spending in
Nato with significant capabilities, | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
and a proven readiness to deploy in
defence of our interest. A key | 0:26:00 | 0:26:05 | |
player in a highly developed sense
of security relationships such as | 0:26:05 | 0:26:11 | |
Five As. Our country has one of the
best promoting services in the | 0:26:11 | 0:26:15 | |
world, and one of the biggest aid
and development programmes. We have | 0:26:15 | 0:26:20 | |
one leading universities that
attract the best talent from London | 0:26:20 | 0:26:24 | |
the globe, more noble laureate that
any country by the United States. A | 0:26:24 | 0:26:29 | |
globally competitive economy with
some exciting, burgeoning industries | 0:26:29 | 0:26:32 | |
like digital. In language that is
the language of the world, and | 0:26:32 | 0:26:37 | |
thanks to institutions like the BBC
and the National Health Service, the | 0:26:37 | 0:26:41 | |
greatest soft power of any nation on
the planet. But just imagine if we | 0:26:41 | 0:26:46 | |
spoke with more conflicting voices,
each misheard as a global | 0:26:46 | 0:26:53 | |
competitors shouted louder, with the
strong single voice, and a divided | 0:26:53 | 0:26:57 | |
country at would be weaker, less
secure, and prosperous overseas. The | 0:26:57 | 0:27:05 | |
unity that exists between our four
nations gives us is killer of | 0:27:05 | 0:27:08 | |
ambition that none of the four of us
could possess alone. We need to be | 0:27:08 | 0:27:13 | |
using our collective economic clout
and experience and reach of our | 0:27:13 | 0:27:19 | |
diplomatic network in the United
Kingdom to sell Scotch whiskey and | 0:27:19 | 0:27:27 | |
engineering expertise, Welsh cheeses
and many computers. Buses and levies | 0:27:27 | 0:27:33 | |
from Northern Ireland right around
the world. And maintaining the | 0:27:33 | 0:27:37 | |
Common Market of United Kingdom will
give us back the heft to lead the | 0:27:37 | 0:27:42 | |
charge of common regulator of
standards. We can be at the | 0:27:42 | 0:27:52 | |
forefront of developing the
regulatory environment we need for | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
the exciting technologies after one.
What the waters for an event as | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
right across the four patients and
to be ahead of the car. By sticking | 0:27:59 | 0:28:11 | |
together, we will be able to provide
global leadership, standing up and | 0:28:11 | 0:28:17 | |
human rights, democratic values and
the rule of law. And defending the | 0:28:17 | 0:28:24 | |
rule-based international order that
is so vital to our security and | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 | |
prosperity together. It would be
easy to listen or even sever those | 0:28:27 | 0:28:31 | |
boards that connect us back, but
with a shrug demolition settlement | 0:28:31 | 0:28:38 | |
that ensures powers of
decision-making and exerted as close | 0:28:38 | 0:28:41 | |
to people as is practical, I believe
a sense of trust can be restored | 0:28:41 | 0:28:46 | |
between the people of the United
Kingdom and those they choose to | 0:28:46 | 0:28:49 | |
govern on their behalf. And with
common frameworks in place to | 0:28:49 | 0:28:55 | |
maintain the integrity of argued, we
can ensure we continue to speak with | 0:28:55 | 0:28:59 | |
a powerful voice globally, each of
those two principles strengthens the | 0:28:59 | 0:29:02 | |
other. Let us seasonable wit and
focus on the prize that is on offer. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:09 | |
A good unit greater than the sum of
its parts, a country that a strong | 0:29:09 | 0:29:15 | |
global leader, a United Kingdom at
home and an active force for good in | 0:29:15 | 0:29:19 | |
the world. Thank you very much
indeed. | 0:29:19 | 0:29:32 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:29:34 | 0:29:37 | |
We have got time for a number of
questions. I'm going to go to the | 0:29:37 | 0:29:43 | |
Airbus people before coming to the
press. Good afternoon. I'm a trade | 0:29:43 | 0:29:52 | |
union ret. Does the Government
agreed with us that we need to be | 0:29:52 | 0:30:01 | |
able to freely move part to our
colleagues in Europe, and also | 0:30:01 | 0:30:10 | |
regarding Airbus, a lot of people
work inside the UK, and a lot of | 0:30:10 | 0:30:15 | |
colleagues work outside the UK as
well, what was it freely movement of | 0:30:15 | 0:30:18 | |
labour look like going forward? It
is one of a number of European | 0:30:18 | 0:30:26 | |
bodies that we will want to have a
means of staying close to. Clearly, | 0:30:26 | 0:30:32 | |
those bodies are designed for EU
members, and we will no longer be an | 0:30:32 | 0:30:36 | |
EU member once exit has taken place
at the end of March next year. But | 0:30:36 | 0:30:44 | |
they were one of a number of bodies
that came up in the conversation in | 0:30:44 | 0:30:49 | |
Chequers last Friday, and it is
something that the PM and other | 0:30:49 | 0:30:52 | |
members of the Cabinet and indeed
very focused on, and we recognise | 0:30:52 | 0:30:57 | |
its importance to this company, but
also to an number of other very | 0:30:57 | 0:31:01 | |
important enterprises in the UK.
Obviously, the exact nature of the | 0:31:01 | 0:31:08 | |
relationship is something we will
have to negotiate. About three | 0:31:08 | 0:31:11 | |
moment, I think that again, in
reality is that the freedoms of the | 0:31:11 | 0:31:19 | |
EU are indivisible. They have been
absolutely clear about that all the | 0:31:19 | 0:31:24 | |
way along, and once we leave the EU,
then a free movement rights as they | 0:31:24 | 0:31:31 | |
currently exist under EU law will no
longer apply. We will need to have | 0:31:31 | 0:31:37 | |
in place and immigration system that
will cover EU nationals who | 0:31:37 | 0:31:43 | |
currently have the right to come and
go in order to take work. We have | 0:31:43 | 0:31:48 | |
been listening to what business is
it saying to us about the importance | 0:31:48 | 0:31:53 | |
of two thanks, about her
international companies need to be | 0:31:53 | 0:31:56 | |
able to move staff around between
different locations in that | 0:31:56 | 0:32:01 | |
international business from ten to
ten, but also more generally in the | 0:32:01 | 0:32:06 | |
economy, about how there are sectors
with labour shortages, and they need | 0:32:06 | 0:32:10 | |
to be able to have people in to fill
those shortages. Without going into | 0:32:10 | 0:32:16 | |
the big debates about how we need in
Britain to do more in terms of | 0:32:16 | 0:32:20 | |
upscaling the workforce and
improving training, not just for | 0:32:20 | 0:32:28 | |
school or college leavers, but
throughout people posh cameras so | 0:32:28 | 0:32:31 | |
there are fewer such labour
shortages in the future, those | 0:32:31 | 0:32:38 | |
points are ones that the Government
recognises, so clearly, in designing | 0:32:38 | 0:32:43 | |
a future migration relationship with
ourselves and the EU and other | 0:32:43 | 0:32:46 | |
countries outside of the EU, that
will be in the very forefront of our | 0:32:46 | 0:32:51 | |
thinking. | 0:32:51 | 0:32:56 | |
Another Airbus question? I am
French, working in Broughton, and my | 0:32:56 | 0:33:04 | |
question was, what are your views
regarding people from the Continent | 0:33:04 | 0:33:09 | |
working in the UK as well as people
from the UK working in other | 0:33:09 | 0:33:13 | |
European countries? You do a great
job, you're working, paying taxes, | 0:33:13 | 0:33:21 | |
contributing to our society. I
applaud what you and people from all | 0:33:21 | 0:33:24 | |
other member states of the European
Union have done in contributing to | 0:33:24 | 0:33:28 | |
life in this country. The referendum
to give political decision, but I | 0:33:28 | 0:33:34 | |
think it's very important that, that
decision having been taken, we | 0:33:34 | 0:33:39 | |
recognise a positive contribution
that you and other colleagues make | 0:33:39 | 0:33:43 | |
and continue to make in our country.
If I can move on, it is to bring | 0:33:43 | 0:33:51 | |
real people and men become to the
journalists? Sky first. You said | 0:33:51 | 0:34:00 | |
there were many different reasons
why people voted to leave. Do you | 0:34:00 | 0:34:04 | |
think all of the 52% voted to leave
the customs union? And I want to | 0:34:04 | 0:34:11 | |
post your question posed by Jeremy
Corbyn in his speech in Coventry. He | 0:34:11 | 0:34:16 | |
said that, if the government
position is to leave the customs | 0:34:16 | 0:34:20 | |
union, then in which sectors of the
economy and industry does the | 0:34:20 | 0:34:24 | |
government think it would be
acceptable for there to be tariffs | 0:34:24 | 0:34:27 | |
between the UK and the EU? I think
there are many different motives, | 0:34:27 | 0:34:33 | |
but primarily a question of a sense
that rules were being imposed on the | 0:34:33 | 0:34:39 | |
United Kingdom. We had the argument
about that at the time of the | 0:34:39 | 0:34:47 | |
referendum, but that was the
dominant theme of those voting to | 0:34:47 | 0:34:51 | |
leave, in their comments. On leaving
the customs union, but the Leader of | 0:34:51 | 0:34:58 | |
the Opposition is ignoring is that
the four freedoms and indivisible | 0:34:58 | 0:35:03 | |
here. I read his speech this morning
and I cannot find a coherent theme | 0:35:03 | 0:35:10 | |
to it. I think that if you look at
what the Prime Minister said in her | 0:35:10 | 0:35:18 | |
Lancaster Has speech, she said very
clearly there that we would not want | 0:35:18 | 0:35:23 | |
to be part of the Common Commercial
Policy and we wouldn't want to be | 0:35:23 | 0:35:29 | |
part of the Common External Tariff,
but we would look at an arrangement | 0:35:29 | 0:35:34 | |
with our partners in the EU. That
was the speech supported by | 0:35:34 | 0:35:38 | |
everybody in the government and my
side of the highs and parliaments, | 0:35:38 | 0:35:41 | |
so that would be the approach we
would continue to take. ITV? Angus | 0:35:41 | 0:35:51 | |
Walker, ITV News. Many large firms
like Airbus will welcome what label | 0:35:51 | 0:35:55 | |
is suggesting on negotiating a
Customs Union. Will you tell large | 0:35:55 | 0:36:01 | |
films like Airbus if they support
that Labour position that they are | 0:36:01 | 0:36:04 | |
wrong? This is a speech about
devolution, but you didn't go into | 0:36:04 | 0:36:08 | |
detail about the Irish border. Do
you think what the EU will see on | 0:36:08 | 0:36:12 | |
the Irish border this week will be
acceptable or are more talks on that | 0:36:12 | 0:36:16 | |
issue required? On your second
point, I'm afraid I do make it a | 0:36:16 | 0:36:22 | |
rule that I will not speculate about
texts that I haven't yet seen. We | 0:36:22 | 0:36:28 | |
are talking both to the commission
and the Irish are all the time about | 0:36:28 | 0:36:33 | |
these and many other matters. On
your first point, two points. One, | 0:36:33 | 0:36:43 | |
we have always made it plain that
our objective is to have the trading | 0:36:43 | 0:36:50 | |
relationship that is as frictionless
as it is possible to negotiate. It | 0:36:50 | 0:36:55 | |
seems to me that, if you look for
example at the balance of trading in | 0:36:55 | 0:36:59 | |
goods between the EU 27 and the
United Kingdom, which at the moment | 0:36:59 | 0:37:05 | |
is strongly in favour of the EU 27,
it is in everyone's interests that | 0:37:05 | 0:37:10 | |
we have that outcome at the end of
the day. On the Leader of the | 0:37:10 | 0:37:16 | |
Opposition's points, I think he is
ignoring some realities about the EU | 0:37:16 | 0:37:19 | |
and how it operates in trade
negotiations. I have been in EU | 0:37:19 | 0:37:28 | |
Council meetings, where we have
tried to thrash out the opening | 0:37:28 | 0:37:32 | |
position for a free trade
negotiation with the third country. | 0:37:32 | 0:37:35 | |
That is done by unanimity. The idea
that the EU would give a non-member | 0:37:35 | 0:37:40 | |
state the right to veto their
approach to the causation is utterly | 0:37:40 | 0:37:44 | |
fanciful. BBC Scotland? BBC
Scotland. You say you are making | 0:37:44 | 0:37:59 | |
process with negotiations with the
Scottish Government. They remain | 0:37:59 | 0:38:03 | |
resolute that, as far as they're
concerned, you are disrespecting the | 0:38:03 | 0:38:08 | |
devolution settlement, because they
argue that all powers in the | 0:38:08 | 0:38:12 | |
Scottish Parliament should retain
their and it should be those powers | 0:38:12 | 0:38:16 | |
that be decide whether they are
decided on the UK level. They say | 0:38:16 | 0:38:20 | |
you are essentially playing fast and
loose with the devolution | 0:38:20 | 0:38:23 | |
settlement. Now, I think that would
be a mistaken interpretation. Last | 0:38:23 | 0:38:32 | |
week, we had constructive set of
conversations with the Welsh and | 0:38:32 | 0:38:36 | |
Scottish governments. We have not
yet come to an agreement, but we | 0:38:36 | 0:38:40 | |
have agreed to intensify those talks
and take them further. There was a | 0:38:40 | 0:38:45 | |
recognition by both devolved
governments that the proposed change | 0:38:45 | 0:38:50 | |
to the withdrawal bill but I put on
the table did mark a very | 0:38:50 | 0:38:54 | |
significant move from the UK. I hope
we will bridge the final gap before | 0:38:54 | 0:39:01 | |
too much longer. My argument has
always been that we are determined | 0:39:01 | 0:39:06 | |
to respect the devolution settlement
in their entirety. When those | 0:39:06 | 0:39:10 | |
devolution settlement were
negotiated and then put into law | 0:39:10 | 0:39:14 | |
back in 1998 and 1999 and subsequent
legislation, it was done the | 0:39:14 | 0:39:22 | |
assumption that everybody shared
that there were certain powers that | 0:39:22 | 0:39:27 | |
were not devolved. This question of
how you dealt with a UK single | 0:39:27 | 0:39:32 | |
market because it was all done as a
European level. Now we have to work | 0:39:32 | 0:39:37 | |
out how we make life easy for
business but also their customers. I | 0:39:37 | 0:39:41 | |
don't think businesses or customers
in Scotland will benefit if there | 0:39:41 | 0:39:46 | |
are extra barriers to stop and
selling across the borders into | 0:39:46 | 0:39:49 | |
England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
BBC Wales? Given the shift from | 0:39:49 | 0:40:00 | |
Labour in supporting a Customs
Union, are you concerned your | 0:40:00 | 0:40:06 | |
government is facing defeat on the
amendment on the Customs Union in | 0:40:06 | 0:40:11 | |
Parliament? One of your MPs
described new offer on the | 0:40:11 | 0:40:15 | |
withdrawal bill as a capitulation,
but there's still no agreement with | 0:40:15 | 0:40:19 | |
the Welsh government. So are you
happy to go further? Are you happy | 0:40:19 | 0:40:23 | |
to do so? On your second point, we
add I Ching constructively with the | 0:40:23 | 0:40:28 | |
Welsh government and the Scottish
Government. Our objective is to | 0:40:28 | 0:40:33 | |
reach a clear agreement and I think
what we have that on the table is a | 0:40:33 | 0:40:39 | |
very fair offer, which maintains the
ability for us to legislate at | 0:40:39 | 0:40:47 | |
Westminster, where there are United
Kingdom interests involved. Both our | 0:40:47 | 0:40:51 | |
international obligations and the
need to protect the interests of | 0:40:51 | 0:40:55 | |
businesses and consumers in the
single market, while ensuring that | 0:40:55 | 0:40:59 | |
the default position is that, where
a power might be devolved, it would | 0:40:59 | 0:41:05 | |
go automatically to the devolved
level. On your first point, my first | 0:41:05 | 0:41:12 | |
parliament, back in 1992-97 was a
Conservative government with a very | 0:41:12 | 0:41:16 | |
small majority and I'm afraid I got
used to these rumours every week | 0:41:16 | 0:41:20 | |
about whether the government will be
defeated on this or that. I think | 0:41:20 | 0:41:26 | |
that when my colleagues here the
Prime Minister speak on Friday, they | 0:41:26 | 0:41:29 | |
will be encouraged and reassured by
what she has to say. Guardian? | 0:41:29 | 0:41:33 | |
Stephen. What will you do to prove
to the devolved government is that | 0:41:33 | 0:41:42 | |
you will respect their views when it
comes to developing yours within | 0:41:42 | 0:41:45 | |
this common framework Western
remarked how can you reassure them? | 0:41:45 | 0:41:54 | |
It is one of the areas we are
discussing at the moment. I have | 0:41:54 | 0:42:01 | |
given a public commitment to that on
many occasions. And I have actually | 0:42:01 | 0:42:05 | |
put on the table some arrangements
where we would write in so long a | 0:42:05 | 0:42:15 | |
very specific requirements to
consult and publish the results from | 0:42:15 | 0:42:20 | |
consultation of the views of the
devolved governments in Scotland, | 0:42:20 | 0:42:24 | |
Wales and I hope Northern Ireland
before too long. But also that we | 0:42:24 | 0:42:29 | |
would write interval in requirement
for the UK Government to report back | 0:42:29 | 0:42:34 | |
to Parliament at very frequent
intervals, perhaps every quarter, on | 0:42:34 | 0:42:38 | |
why any of these powers to set
frameworks was still being held at | 0:42:38 | 0:42:45 | |
Westminster. I want to emphasise
that the power to hold something | 0:42:45 | 0:42:50 | |
back, pending the negotiating
framework, is a power intended to be | 0:42:50 | 0:42:56 | |
exercised as a backstop. It should
only be used proportionately and | 0:42:56 | 0:43:01 | |
tempered until the framework has
been put in place. And by having a | 0:43:01 | 0:43:07 | |
requirement for the UK Government to
have a parliamentary report at very | 0:43:07 | 0:43:14 | |
frequent intervals, I think would
put the pressure on any government | 0:43:14 | 0:43:19 | |
department in Whitehall that is
perhaps dragging its feet because it | 0:43:19 | 0:43:21 | |
has other business and it's not
giving the devolution question is a | 0:43:21 | 0:43:26 | |
top priority it needs to be given.
We are very willing to continue | 0:43:26 | 0:43:32 | |
talking about how we find
institutional means of ensuring we | 0:43:32 | 0:43:37 | |
really are delivering on a promise
we have given. | 0:43:37 | 0:43:45 |