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Kemi Badenoch: Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to apologise to our friends from Japan and Vietnam who had to listen to that diatribe, and

Kemi Badenoch: I wholeheartedly endorse my right hon. Friend’s comments. He is correct: this is purely a trade deal.

Kemi Badenoch: It would be quite wrong of me to start commenting on other countries’ accession when we have not even signed our agreement.

Kemi Badenoch: My hon.

Kemi Badenoch: My right hon. Friend has said it better than I could.

Kemi Badenoch: Yes, there was discussion. The process started in 2018, so it is not just something that happened under my tenure.

Kemi Badenoch: I thank my right hon.

Kemi Badenoch: Quite a significant assessment.

Kemi Badenoch: It will benefit businesses in north-west Wales in exactly the same way as it will benefit all the nations of the UK—this is n

Kemi Badenoch: My right hon.