{"id":99598,"date":"2025-05-14T02:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99598\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T02:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:02:11","slug":"moment-lib-dem-mp-addresses-the-commons-in-french-during-brexit-debate-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99598\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment Lib Dem MP addresses the Commons in French during Brexit debate | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Lib Dem MP read out some of an EU treaty in French during a Brexit debate in the Commons today.<\/a> Rachel Gilmour hit out at the UK’s departure from the bloc as MPs discussed the break up ahead of next week’s joint summit.<\/p>\n

The MP for Tiverton and Minehead finished her speech by reading in French some of the opening text of the Maastricht Treaty, which created the modern EU. Ms Gilmour said: “I’m going to end with the words of the preamble to the EU.”<\/p>\n

She added afterwards: “I will give you a translation if you need one.”<\/p>\n

Earlier in her speech, Ms Gilmour, whose party backs closer ties with Brussels, said: “Despite the turbulence of Brexit<\/a> the EU remains our largest trading partners.<\/p>\n

“To undermine this reality seems to my mind to be a curious act of economic self-harm.<\/p>\n

“Grand promises of scaling back of Brussels’ bureaucracy were made but precisely the opposite has occurred.<\/p>\n

“More red tape, delays and headaches for our businesses and traders.”<\/p>\n

Elsewhere during the debate, the Labour Government insisted it will not reintroduce freedom of movement, the customs union or single market as part of its Brexit<\/a> “reset”.<\/p>\n

Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds was responding to Tory calls not to “row back on Brexit<\/a>” ahead of the joint summit in London next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lib Dem MP read out some of an EU treaty in French during a Brexit debate in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,5322,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,11518,46241,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-99598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-news","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-liberal-democrats","17":"tag-maastricht-treaty","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114503728803967064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}