Climate change brings increasingly frequent and severe weather patterns and this means more floods. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
We engage in the public institutions of work and school and club and team, because it is there that we find meaning and purpose. But sometimes when we engage, we find confrontation not affirmation. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Trade agreements influence the standards, protections and regulations that shape the kind of society we live in. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
No minister should be able to whisk through Parliament agreements that are negotiated behind closed doors. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Donald Trump spoke to the experience of ordinary working people when he dubbed Nafta the ‘worst trade deal ever made.’ Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Labour opposes the principle of companies having their own private and privileged courts in which to settle investor-state disputes. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
We are patriotic enough to believe there is no good reason why foreign investors from Europe cannot be expected to resolve any disputes fairly through British justice, operating through British courts. And we are European enough to think that our companies can do the same by relying on European courts. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Leaving the E.U. with no trade deal is the worst possible option. It will condemn British exporters to the full range of tariffs and barriers that apply under WTO rules. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should be withdrawn gradually as those distortions in the market are addressed. Barry Gardiner Read Quote
