Given the difficulties that the hon. Gentleman is outlining, the call for a second referendum is not only damaging to our democracy, but enormously diversionary from the tasks that he outlined of negotiating our relationship with our European neighbours and the rest of the world, and, equally significantly, getting the British Government machinery working efficiently and effectively so we can make decisions and compete in that new world.
EU Referendum Rules
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Spellar
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 5 September 2016.
It occurred during e-petition debate on EU Referendum Rules.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
614 c2WH 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2022-04-17 02:28:10 +0100
URI
http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-09-05/1609058000016
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-09-05/1609058000016
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-09-05/1609058000016