– 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by on 2016-10-10.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the Foreign Secretary’s recent description of the EU’s position on access to the single market and free movement as complete baloney”

Baroness Anelay of St Johns

As we leave the EU, the Government wants to give British companies the maximum freedom to trade and operate in the Single Market. Ministers are clear about this objective, and are able to draw on a wide range of expertise within the FCO and across Government, to help achieve it.