EU Referendum Rules

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Order. Before the hon. Gentleman intervenes, I said that I was going to do this to begin with, so...

I am grateful for your guidance, Mr Gray. If you will forgive me, I am trying to move on to discu...

I am mindful of your comments, Mr Gray, so I will try to put my intervention in the correct conte...

I am very grateful for that intervention. I will come on to the sovereignty of Parliament—and, in...

Given the difficulties that the hon. Gentleman is outlining, the call for a second referendum is ...

I understand the right hon. Gentleman’s point, but there is the issue of what people voted for. T...

Yesterday, the Prime Minister confirmed that there is no commitment to give additional funds to t...

It is fair to say that those on the Brexit side failed to put across exactly what Brexit means. T...

When we talk about a second referendum, it is important to be clear about whether we are talking ...

I absolutely agree. The Electoral Reform Society talked about many of the good things in the refe...

Let me make some progress, then I will be happy to take more interventions.

The Scottish Go...

Order. I am very sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman again, but I made it absolutely plain at t...

I am grateful for the guidance from the Chair, and I am seeking to follow it. I am building up an...

Order. The hon. Gentleman must keep to the point of the debate.

The point, however, is that we have been asked about the rules for an EU referendum. My specific ...

Order. I must now insist that the hon. Gentleman return to the topic of the debate in hand, namel...

With respect, Mr Gray, that is precisely what I am trying to do. I am putting this in the context...

On the sovereignty of the people of Scotland, did they not vote to remain in the United Kingdom? ...

We had a referendum in 2014, and 45% of those who voted in it voted for independence and 55% vote...

As I understand the position, in the past two years the hon. Gentleman has taken part in two refe...

I will try to stick to the terms of the debate today—I am arguing strongly that my primary intere...

To confirm, for the sake of clarity, the hon. Gentleman wants to have a free and independent Scot...

I have a lot of time for the hon. Gentleman, but this is about securing Scotland’s position withi...

Order. I have told the hon. Gentleman on several occasions that the debate is not about any of th...

I have to say that I am surprised by the remarks from the Chair. All that I was doing was respond...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman that the referendum campaign was flawed in terms of the informati...

I am not talking about a rerun of the referendum campaign we have just had. I am arguing specific...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that changing the rules of the game ex post facto if we do not like...

There were flaws in the way that the referendum was conducted, but as a democrat and someone who ...

Order. The hon. Gentleman has been asked repeatedly to return his remarks to the simple issue of ...

I am trying to address myself to that topic. If you will bear with me, Mr Gray, I am just a few s...

Order. Nor will the hon. Gentleman enter into discussion with the Chair about what I am ruling. M...

I hope that the people of Scotland are listening to this debate and the conduct of it.

Cont...

Order. I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his remarks. He will now resume his seat. I c...

I must object—

I understand that you are making a point of order. On a point of order, Mr Ian Blackford.

I am not making a point of order. I am making a speech that is legitimate in the context of the d...

Order. As a Scot, I very much hope that the Scots are indeed listening to the debate. The hon. Ge...

As Constitutional Reform Minister at the time, I had responsibility for the detailed election rul...

The hon. Gentleman has made an interesting start. Does he agree that if both sides of the campaig...

My point was that had we set up a super-majority as the petition suggests, we would have tilted t...

The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point about super-majorities, but they have been used in ...

I completely agree. The outcome, although definitive—there was an overall majority of well more t...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

What a choice. I will happily give way to the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (To...

I thank the hon. Gentleman. Does he think that the outcome of the referendum will ensure that peo...

I will respond merely by saying that I hope that the period of banging on about Europe will be mu...

I campaigned on the remain side, and I must say that I was disappointed with the negativity on bo...

I completely agree. Every time either the Lib Dems or the Labour party win a local council by-ele...

I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman would like to respond—perhaps this is not for this debate but...

I worry about such proposals, because they could create a vehicle for making vexatious claims dur...

That is precisely the assumption that many remainers had, at least at the beginning—that they wou...

At a time when, with isolated but notable exceptions in both the Scottish independence referendum...

Could not the remarks that the hon. Gentleman is making about the dreadful finality of the result...

I am not quite sure what the hon. Gentleman’s point is. What I am arguing is that we have a clear...

Several right hon. and hon. Members of the House have long believed, as we have heard—or not as w...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will give way, but I am conscious that there are many others who must get into the debate.

I appreciate the right hon. Gentleman’s generosity. With regard to a second referendum on specifi...

The hon. Gentleman does not seem to see this as I do. I believe that the country is already in th...

I want to add two points, and to ask my right hon. Friend whether he agrees with them. One is tha...

My hon. Friend is right. That is the case, which is why it was breathtaking to hear that Britain ...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I am not going to give way, because I think I should make progress.

I have described the sc...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I have said that I should make some progress. Others have got to get in to make important contrib...

Order. Having been firm with our colleague from the Scottish National party, I should also be fir...

You are absolutely right, Mr Gray. I was simply making the case that those EU subsidies will no l...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not give way. There was no two-thirds threshold as is required in other nations to validat...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. I assume the applause upon my standin...

Five.

Indeed, it is five. My hon. Friend is more learned on the matter. People seem to have got stuck s...

I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for being so brief. Perhaps other colleagues will follow...

I start by picking up on a couple of points made by the right hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy...

For the sake of fairness, I think we should say that there were outrageous claims from both sides...

I say to the hon. Gentleman that we are only two months away from the referendum having taken pla...

I apologise to you, Mr Gray, and to the Chamber for not being here at the beginning of the debate...

May I assure the right hon. Gentleman, to whom I am grateful for giving way, that an untold numbe...

In that case, let me say two things. First, the hon. Gentleman and the remain side were singularl...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will continue, if I may.

If it was a lie for the leave side to refer to our gross contrib...

Does not the suggestion of a punishment Budget prove that the former Chancellor was a bluffer? He...

On the subject of a second referendum, Mr Peter Lilley.

The Scottish nationalists want to refer to the previous referendum, which they lost, but I will n...

This debate is nominally about the threshold that we should have applied to the EU referendum, th...

My hon. Friend is making an interesting point, but does he agree that—as I have seen in correspon...

I do not disagree with that. I will move on from thresholds, but the danger is that they may be s...

As the hon. Gentleman knows, in my constituency of Boston and Skegness, the turnout was 77% and t...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman. I was going to mention his constituency, where he kindly hosted ...

I have just a quick question on the point that the hon. Gentleman made with respect to a split in...

I call Chuka Umunna—

I will come on to that.

Bearing in mind the clock.

Oh, bearing in mind the clock, I was going to come on to that very point, but I just want to say ...

Before I call the next speaker, I point out that if hon. Members restrict themselves to seven or ...

I am happy to follow the hon. Member for Streatham (Mr Umunna) because he made some very powerful...

Is the hon. Lady aware that the EU has free trade agreements with some 50 countries, only three o...

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is a wealth of difference between free trade and bei...

About a month before the referendum, when the result was widely expected to be successful for the...

The hon. Gentleman and I had many debates during the referendum campaign, but, I am sorry, I do n...

Order. Before the hon. Member for Braintree (James Cleverly) resumes, may I say that the wind-ups...

The hon. Member for Streatham has pre-empted my next paragraph, so I thank him for that. He may r...

The hon. Gentleman is painting quite a tempting scenario. Is it not the case, first of all, that ...

I take the hon. Gentleman’s point on board. Although I disagree with some of the fundamentals und...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will take the hon. Gentleman’s intervention, then I will come to my concluding points.

The hon. Gentleman is being very generous. Does he not accept that there is another fundamental p...

Order. I absolutely agree that the hon. Member for Braintree is being very generous, but there ar...

I will wrap up the points made by the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth (Stephen Doughty)...

I congratulate my fellow member of the Petitions Committee, the hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lo...

It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David.

Almost two hours into the deba...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will, briefly. I am only going to give way this once and the hon. Lady is the lucky contender.<...

To continue the hon. Gentleman’s analogy, does he share my fear that we might be walking around i...

I love it. The analogy is brilliant because for the past 40 years we have been walking in the wil...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will not give way again. I have said clearly that it would be unfair on the other five peop...

Nearly 17,500 people in Ealing Central and Acton signed this petition and 72% of my constituents ...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

There is limited time left and I have waited ages, so I would rather not give way. I will talk to...

I would be grateful if the four remaining colleagues took five minutes each, without interruption...

I will be as brief as I can, Sir David. I never thought of the referendum as a telephone contract...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David. One reason why the petition had so ...

I will try to cut out from my speech all the points that have already been made, to allow my coll...

This has been a curious debate, hasn’t it? It has been a bit like the referendum: there was an is...

Order. I remind the three remaining speakers that they should leave 30 seconds for Mr Blackford t...

This is an interesting debate to attempt to sum up. I clearly do not have time to address all the...

It is always a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David.

For some, the re...

I congratulate the Petitions Committee on arranging the debate and the hon. Member for Ross, Skye...

I thank all those who signed the petition that got us to this position today and I also thank all...