With the Internal Market Bill being placed before Parliament today (Wednesday 9th September 2020), Matt Kilcoyne Deputy Director of the Adam Smith Institute says:
"It is right that if the United Kingdom is to continue to allow its consumers to access goods and services from all parts without impediment.
"The UK is a single nation state, and it deserves an internal market that promotes free trade. It is not the remit of the devolved administrations to kowtow to Welsh and Scottish nationalists by putting up barriers to trade between the British peoples."
"Mutual recognition means all devolved administrations are treated with equal respect as Westminster but that it is ultimately consumers that will have the final say over the standards they accept."
For further comment or to arrange an interview please contact Matt on 07904099599 or email matt@adamsmith.org