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Ms Stella Creasy

Ms Stella Creasy

Labour (Co-op) — Walthamstow

Speaking in the House of Commons on 1 April 2025

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Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]

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I will, if I may, continue with my speech, but I shall take an intervention a bit later. Our colleagues in Northern Ireland know the practical consequences of divergence—the obsession with the concept that somehow we have always to be different, which is somehow believed to be sovereignty. They will know what the “not for EU labels” mean. They will know, too, the impact that that has had on them and their colleagues. Neil Johnston, director of the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium, recently told the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee about just that. He described how suppliers have to have separate print runs for labelling, and how the requirements in shops for posters and edge-of-shelf labelling are massively burdensome for small businesses. We end up with a sausage roll that we cannot take across the border between Castlederg and Castlefin simply because of the way that the previous Government undertook Brexit.
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