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John McDonnell Quotes

born 1951 England

John Martin McDonnell (born 8 September 1951) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hayes and Harlington since 1997. A member of the Labour Party, he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020.

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If the government says 'well a customs union for a couple of years or maybe customs union until we decide there won't be one,' well actually, that doesn't give the stability for investment for anyone

We voted for the implementation of Article 50 because we respect the referendum result. But we cannot have this situation where government becomes unaccountable on the implementation of one of the most important decisions for a generation.

Inevitably in this century we will have open borders. We are seeing it in Europe already. The movement of peoples across the globe will mean that borders are almost going to become irrelevant by the end of this century so we should be preparing for that and explaining why people move.

That has been our objective since immediately after the referendum. The structures - whether we are in or out - are a secondary matter. We are not ruling anything out but what we are saying is that we are the fifth largest economy in the world and we have a special status in both our relationship with the EU and the rest of the globe and we feel we can get a deal that achieves tariff-free access.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John McDonnell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.