The Government's Plan for Brexit

Does the hon. and learned Gentleman acknowledge that, by accepting the Government’s amendment to ...

Before the hon. and learned Gentleman responds, may I politely say that the intervention is absol...

I am grateful for that intervention, and I assure the hon. Lady that I shall come to that importa...

I am going to make some progress, if I may. The focus is now where it ought to be: on the substan...

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I will make a bit of progress and get to dealing with the amendment.

Today’s victory is imp...

However, if the Government fail at the Supreme Court, there will have to be a legislative process...

I am grateful for that intervention and I am coming precisely to that point, so I will press on.<...

I am going to get to the amendment, so that I can make my position clear on that, and then I will...

I do not want the shadow Secretary of State to inadvertently mislead the House. We already have l...

I am grateful for that intervention and understand the point, but let us see what happens on 16 D...

I am glad that my hon. and learned Friend has made it clear that it is not our intention to frust...

I am grateful for that intervention, because what we have seen is the characterising of anyone wh...

If the hon. and learned Gentleman accepts the Government’s amendment, is he not effectively givin...

I understand the hon. Gentleman’s concern, but that is not the case, and I will make that point i...

Does the shadow Secretary of State agree that, if the Opposition support, or at least do not oppo...

I have made it absolutely clear that nothing in today’s motion precludes any party, including my ...

I do not want to break the hon. and learned Gentleman’s flow, but I want to make a factual point....

I have made it absolutely clear—and I will make it absolutely clear again—that the purpose of the...

I am going to make some progress. I have taken a lot of interventions.

The Government must ...

I congratulate the hon. and learned Gentleman, because he is playing on a very difficult wicket. ...

I think it is pretty straightforward and I have said this on a number of occasions. I fully accep...

The hon. and learned Gentleman is an experienced lawyer, so I am sure that putting up Aunt Sallie...

I heard that point being made and I understand and respect the Secretary of State’s position on t...

I thank the hon. and learned Gentleman for that acknowledgment, but let me pick up on the issues ...

I understand the Secretary of State’s point. To some extent, we will probably return to this deba...

I am going to make progress.

The minimum requirements of a plan are fivefold. The first—I h...

The hon. and learned Gentleman said that the alternative to having a plan was no information unti...

Yes; good. We are working with our European colleagues on that issue, but that is after article 5...

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I have not finished dealing with the intervention from the hon. and learned Member for South East...

I apologise for intervening again, but we have said that procedures under the Constitutional Refo...

I acknowledge that, but my response is exactly the same as my previous response. The timetable fo...

I understand why the shadow Minister is pressing the Government for their plans and I understand ...

The answer to the question is no.

I am going to make progress—I have taken a lot of interventions.

The second requirement of ...

I am going to press on. Thirdly, the plan must provide enough detail to enable the Office for Bud...

I am fascinated by the focus on the plan and the amount of work that the hon. and learned Gentlem...

Order. I recognise that the hon. Gentleman is an illustrious Member of the House as Chair of the ...

On reflection, the hon. Gentleman may think that he did not use the right word in describing our ...

I will press on.

Until now, the Prime Minister’s two mantras that “Brexit means Brexit” and...

My hon. and learned Friend is right to insist on a plan. It is important that we do not stand in ...

I am grateful for that intervention. I do understand the concerns about the timetable and I think...

I shall press on, if I may.

The question on everybody’s lips is, is it the hard Brexit sket...

Will the hon. and learned Gentleman give way?

No. I have given way a number of times.

In the past few months I have travelled across the ...

I beg to move an amendment, at end add:

“, consistently with the principles agreed without ...

To be clear, I was not making the argument that the OBR required confidential information, the di...

I take that point. As I make progress through what I have to say, I will explain why, in some res...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

No, I am going to make a bit of progress. I will give way later. I normally like the badinage wit...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

If my right hon. and learned Friend will wait a little while, I will, of course, give way to him....

May I emphasise to my right hon. Friend that the motion must require Parliament to support the tr...

My right hon. and learned Friend, the ex-Attorney General, should know better than to tempt me to...

On the timing set out in the amendment, would the Secretary of State not accept that, given that ...

No, I do not accept that. Between now and the possible end of the negotiating process, if it goes...

Is the crucial issue here not that, whatever the caveats entered by the shadow Minister, anyone v...

The right hon. Gentleman is exactly right. I agree with him entirely.

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To balance up affairs, I will give way to the Father of the House.

Quite apart from the legalities of the situation, we have to address the political question of th...

My right hon. and learned Friend is at least straightforward in what he says; he does not really ...

I will make some more progress, if I may. [Interruption.] I will not give in to my normal temptat...

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Mr Speaker, I am going to make about five minutes’ progress. I hope the hon. Gentleman does not m...

Order. The Secretary of State is clearly not giving way at present—a point that is so blindingly ...

You make my point, Mr Speaker.

It is widely accepted that the negotiation of our departure ...

Will my right hon. Friend allow me to intervene?

In a moment.

We will need to find a way through a vast number of competing interests to man...

The Secretary of State has just read out a list of reasons not to disclose the Government’s plan ...

I really ought to make the people who raise this point, which has been made about five times in t...

Does my right hon. Friend accept that one can be an honest Brexiteer who wants to get this throug...

In fact there is a law that applies to this—the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010—so ...

This is important, so can the Secretary of State say in terms that there will be a vote on the fi...

All I can say is what I have said before: that is what I expect. It is as simple as that.

I...

The 2010 Act says that a Government cannot ratify a treaty until such time as they have laid the ...

As I was about to say—I was in the middle of a sentence—it is inconceivable to me that if the Eur...

Will my right hon. Friend clarify the point that any vote in this House at the end of the process...

That is entirely correct.

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I will make a bit more progress for a few moments and keep him...

The Secretary of State repeats that what he is doing is—he thinks—in the national interest, but h...

We heard during the campaign about how the economy was going to collapse, but I seem to have noti...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Yes, as I promised to do so.

May I say how strongly I support my right hon. Friend? My right hon. and learned Friend the Membe...

My hon. Friend is, of course, exactly right, and that brings me rather neatly to the next thing I...

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I will give way in a moment.

As the Prime Minister said in October, although we will not be...

As part of our determination to find out some knowledge from Ministers, it was asked several time...

What was on the ballot paper, and what I think a million Scots voted for, was leaving the Europea...

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I will make some progress and then I will give way again in a moment. There are some among the La...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

No.

Nevertheless, to prevent any misrepresentation or misunderstanding, the Government have...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Give way!

Clearly somebody has the support of the Labour party for what she wants to say. I will get around...

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I will not give way for a second, because this point is incredibly important. No law will be chan...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. On the customs union matter, did I hear him...

My right hon. Friend was not listening; she probably made up her question before she heard the la...

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One moment. There is a range of means of arriving at a deal and there is a range of outcomes, and...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

Not at the moment. We have made our aims clear on immigration, on the ECJ, on workers’ rights and...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

No.

Today we will see whether the Opposition are prepared to back Britain and support our p...

I thank the shadow Secretary of State for his speech and for giving us the opportunity to debate ...

The hon. Gentleman and I do not differ on many of these points, but I would say this to him. Allo...

The Secretary of State makes the point. Why not give Scotland—it needs the powers—some of the res...

indicated assent.

I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman is nodding still, and I look forward to his joining us in...

The hon. Gentleman mentions workers’ rights. First, the Government have already confirmed that we...

In many other areas, such as parental and other rights, we relied on European Union rulings. I te...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, which is well worthy of the award he won last night...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point.

I have another point—I hope the Under-Secretary ha...

In the case currently going through the Supreme Court, the Lord Advocate for Scotland described t...

The Minister makes—[Laughter.] My hon. Friend—he is not yet a Minister, but let’s give it time—ma...

If my hon. Friend has been following the Supreme Court case as closely as I have, he will be awar...

My hon. and learned Friend makes a very fine point, as always.

Let me make another comparis...

Order. On account of the number of would-be participants in the debate it is necessary to impose ...

I will, I hope, be brief. I support the Government’s amendment, and wish to make it clear that I ...

Order. I was momentarily distracted by another hon. Member speaking to me. The right hon. Gentlem...

I want to begin by expressing my concern about the continuing tone of some of the debate on the U...

We accept that Labour is going to vote for article 50 and we all want the plan, but does the righ...

No, I do not. First, we have no idea what the legislation will look like. I would just make the p...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Will I get more injury time, Mr Speaker?

Indeed.

Then of course I give way.

My right hon. Friend is very generous. Does he agree that businesses have expressed concern about...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have heard a lot of evidence before the Select Committee, ...

It gives me pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn). It shows th...

Surely you haven’t been here 150 years!

No—only the last few decades can I recall directly. In any previous Parliament—certainly the ones...

I am glad that my right hon. and learned Friend now agrees that this Parliament should be supreme...

It is not going to direct us at all. The Supreme Court is the authority—I am not, and my hon. Fri...

It is a privilege to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke).

T...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that this is not nit-picking. A key issue in my c...

My hon. Friend puts it very well.

What about the plan on immigration, including for citizen...

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I give way to the right hon. Gentleman, who might well have had a hand in the pamphlet or written...

I am grateful. To clarify, for the benefit of the House, is the right hon. Gentleman arguing whet...

I believe, as the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe said, that of course there should ...

Listening to the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband)—

Order. I think the hon. Gentleman has been notified of this, but I should notify the House that, ...

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

I was about to refer to the final remarks made by the right hon. Mem...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way, not for the first time during these debates. He a...

I hate—this pains me—to disappoint my right hon. and learned Friend, but I voted yes in the 1975 ...

I come to this debate from two positions. First, I am a Scottish National party Member from Scotl...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government could show good faith by agreeing to reveal their g...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent suggestion; perhaps the Government should explore that further....

It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr MacNeil) and a superb ar...

Is the right hon. Gentleman telling us that leaving the single market is the Government’s positio...

I am telling the hon. Gentleman that that was the position taken by the British public, including...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Not quite yet.

Since we voted to leave, we have seen increased investment from Nissan, Jagu...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

No, I am not giving way.

So on two of the legitimate concerns expressed beforehand—that our...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

No thank you.

This Parliament has an opportunity to shape an economic policy, an immigratio...

It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove). I was ple...

I want to make two main points. The first is that the Government’s position is much clearer than ...

May I give my right hon. Friend one good example of this? It relates to the import of oranges. Ve...

My right hon. Friend makes a good point, and I would add that we do not easily manufacture orange...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I am sorry, but I will not.

Our EU partners will choose. If their primary concern is the ec...

Order. I call Pat McFadden.

3.23 pm

The motion before us, moved by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Holborn and St Pancras (...

The faux outrage that has followed the use of a metaphor is not worthy of the right hon. Gentlema...

We are all responsible for what we say, and I do not believe that our European partners are our e...

Like the right hon. Gentleman, I campaigned to remain, and we do all have a responsibility now to...

I am afraid that I do not agree with the thrust of the hon. Gentleman’s intervention. Responsibil...

The right hon. Member for Wolverhampton South East (Mr McFadden) has made out that the essence of...

When the right hon. Gentleman looks at the way the other European countries conduct their negotia...

The hon. Lady is an old friend of mine, but she is totally misguided if she thinks that this is a...

Why is it, then, that the European Parliament can be involved in this process, but this sovereign...

The reason is that the European Parliament is one of the counterparties to the negotiation. The c...

In November 1991, John Major came to the House to seek approval for his negotiating mandate—his p...

He did. The outcome was catastrophic. I wrote 100 articles inveighing against the Maastricht trea...

Is not it the case that, during those negotiations, John Major said,

“don’t bind my hands w...

He did. He did not succeed in having his hands not bound, and I repeat that the result was a cata...

The Maastricht treaty and internal negotiations on being in the EU are wholly different from leav...

I happen to agree with my right hon. Friend, but my point goes beyond that. It was never suggeste...

I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend, as ever, for his careful and thoughtful remarks. He says t...

My answer is no. It is not right that we in this place should decide those things, because ultima...

Let me be absolutely clear. We cannot say this often enough: this debate is not about whether we ...

My hon. Friend and I are both members of the Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affa...

I shall come on to the option that we should follow in the negotiations. As many Members have ill...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech about the importance of the farming sector. She will...

Mr Speaker, I did not get the extra minute for the second intervention.

It is right that all of us should be held to account, including the Chair.

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

I accept what my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Helen G...

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for calling me in this debate.

Let me make it clear at the start, fo...

The Opposition motion is absolutely right about one thing: leaving the EU is indeed the defining ...

The conundrum we are facing is that this is the first time in our history that the establishment ...

I am listening to what the right hon. Gentleman says about the CAP, but does he believe that post...

Emphatically yes. If the hon. Lady had listened to my speeches during the referendum campaign, sh...

I am interested in what the right hon. Gentleman has just said. Can he tell me why the Conservati...

I am speaking for the Vote Leave campaign, which made it very clear that we would not be under th...

We have to face up to the fact that a growing proportion of our population have lost faith in thi...

Will the hon. Gentleman agree with UKIP’s long-standing policy by voting in favour of supporting ...

I do not think I agree with a single policy that UKIP advocates. The party is about dividing our ...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bury South (Mr Lewis). He made an important ...

The High Court.

Quite right—that is what the High Court has said. It is possible, of course, that the Supreme Cou...

The hon. Gentleman is quite taken up with the triggering of article 50. It is not so much the tri...

The narrow point I am dealing with is the triggering of article 50, which I say has been authoris...

Name names!

My right hon. Friend the Member for—I cannot remember what her constituency is—[Hon. Members: “Br...

May I say, just for the record, that as Chief Whip I had a number of dealings with my right hon. ...

I am always glad to be corrected by a former Chief Whip. What my right hon. Friend said is undoub...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr Bone). I simply make the point ...

It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Knowsley (Mr Howarth). I endorse in pa...

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Ooh, I will give way. I will get an extra minute.

It is true that the right hon. Lady has been willing to work across the House on crucial issues, ...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman. Businesses and trade organisations in my constituency want certa...

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I will not get another minute, but I will give way very quickly.

I just wanted to say this to my right hon. Friend: would it not be the best possible birthday pre...

I am grateful for that comment and all that my hon. Friend says.

I want to say this gently ...

It gives me great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry), who has be...

Given that the French and the German elections provide a case to delay article 50 and given that ...

I do not agree with everything that my hon. Friend has said, but I do think it would make sense f...

As the Member of Parliament for a constituency that voted narrowly to remain, I have felt ever si...

My right hon. and learned Friend is making a powerful speech. Does he agree that if this House an...

It depends on whether we were seeking to limit the mandate in carrying out amendments. As I have ...

My right hon. and learned Friend’s last point is exactly the point: if we have left the EU, judgm...

It is indeed a fundamental change, and I am delighted my hon. Friend is pleased and that appeals ...

Will my right hon. and learned Friend give way?

I will not give way as I must finish.

So that WTO negotiation will also be a matter of grea...

It is a genuine pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve)...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will not give way. I have come here to set out my position, and that is what I will do. If reta...

I come to this debate straight after returning from the United States, where I have spent three d...

I met the Irish Foreign Minister this morning, and one of the concerns that I left with was the p...

The hon. Gentleman, who now chairs the International Trade Committee, will be out of work if we r...

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that, because the interests of the Irish Republic are so tied up w...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. However, the principal nations of the EU, which are facin...

I agree with my hon. Friend’s analysis, but is it not also the case that the whole negotiating th...

My right hon. and learned Friend is, of course, absolutely right. We have to try to take the temp...

Order.

4.51 pm

The sad context for today’s debate is that far from coming back together as a country since the r...

Let me just correct that. I did not say that they are the enemy and I made it crystal clear in th...

The hon. Gentleman used the phrase “the enemy” and he needs to clarify what he meant by that. I d...

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I will make some progress. Today needs to mark the beginning of a new phase in the Brexit debate....

The right hon. Gentleman’s party is suggesting that leaving the customs union was not on the ball...

I suggest to the hon. Gentleman that he speaks to the public and listens to what they had to say ...

I agree with my right hon. Friend that it is certainly not xenophobic or racist to call out unscr...

That is precisely the issue that neither Europe nor, let us be honest, this Parliament was addres...

I found the speech by the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) rather refreshing. I submit ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that as we bring the country together it is important that people do no...

I wholly agree with my right hon. Friend.

The Latin monetary union was formed in 1865 in Eu...

Does the hon. Gentleman share concerns about the headlong rush to trigger article 50? Given that ...

The hon. Gentleman will find that a great deal of industry is quietly preparing for the possibili...

The hon. Member for Harwich and North Essex (Mr Jenkin) asked what kind of judiciary we want. Wel...

Has the right hon. Gentleman taken the trouble to listen to the statements, to come to the severa...

No doubt that is the position that the right hon. Gentleman has adopted today, and he may have do...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

No. I will continue because I know that others who have been waiting a very long time also want t...

I am grateful to follow the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake). I rise t...

First time.

No, it is not the first time—I am grateful to my hon. Friend.

I want to pick up on what the...

Does my hon. Friend accept that what goes with the Prime Minister’s very clear statements is that...

I fully accept that. In fact, together with the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham), who s...

Does my hon. Friend agree that there is absolutely no need to pay these countries anything, becau...

I do agree. It would be quite wrong for us to pay a market access fee. As my hon. Friend the Memb...

Speak for decency.

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. We need to help those people to build their way out of pov...

I rise to speak in support of my constituents, the people of Bristol West. Four out of five of th...

Did the hon. Lady learn anything from the referendum majority view? Does she not understand that ...

I have heard the result of the referendum, but I also know that there are 33,000 people from EU c...

I agree entirely with what my hon. Friend is saying, but is there not also a problem in that, in ...

I understand the point my hon. Friend makes, but I believe my hon. and learned Friend the Member ...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for

Bristol...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am honoured to give way to the hon. Lady.

The hon. Gentleman and I debated this very issue many times during the referendum campaign—and, I...

Parliament is indeed sovereign, and Parliament, in its wisdom, passed a referendum Bill; and my r...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

Of course I will give way.

Pray may my hon. Friend continue.

I am extremely grateful for the extra minute.

Leaving is everything. That is the point. The...

Order. Such has been the excess of interventions and excited speeches this afternoon that I am af...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North East Somerset (Mr Rees-Mogg), particularly a...

Does the hon. and learned Lady not understand that when we get the powers back from the European ...

The right hon. Gentleman is getting rather ahead of himself, but we on the SNP Benches will make ...

My hon. and learned Friend makes a very good point. The Secretary of State said that no law would...

Indeed that question has not been answered yet. The point of my speech this afternoon is to say t...

I welcome the opportunity to debate this important—indeed, defining—issue for our country. This i...

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the Prime Minister could at last make it clear that our membe...

The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point. It is my view that, given the positions already announ...

Those who have spoken most strongly in favour of the Prime Minister’s amendment have generally ta...

Is it not a good idea to try to get a consensus to back the British people in their decision?

I am not one of the British people; I am here as an Irish person, proudly carrying an Irish passp...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.

She said—

Order. A point of order has been raised by Mr Kwarteng.

I have just realised, Madam Deputy Speaker, that my intended point of order has been attended to ...

Thank you. The clock was stuck, and it is now working again.

The then Secretary of State said:

“Their activities are against the democratically expresse...

As a result of the Good Friday agreement and the consent principle, the people of Northern Irelan...

I am afraid the right hon. Gentleman does not know the difference—people in Northern Ireland are ...

It is a pleasure, as always, to follow the hon. Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan). As a Unionist, I ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill).

I re...

Is the hon. Gentleman essentially saying the people got it wrong on 23 June?

I am saying that people were misled, so basically now we are going to have another year of auster...

The hon. Gentleman has made the astonishing assertion that there have been under-the-table bribes...

Clearly they have come to the Government and said, “The only reason we’re in this country is to p...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will not.

I do not think that people voted for Brexit—

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will not.

I do not think people voted for Brexit at any cost. In fact 75% of those wh...

Is the logic of the hon. Gentleman’s argument that we might as well never trigger article 50 beca...

I introduced a Bill on the terms of our withdrawal from the EU. It stated that after the emergenc...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Swansea West (Geraint Davies) has ...

As the hon. Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare) knows, the content of an hon. Member’s speech i...

There was certainly no wrongdoing. What I was suggesting is that huge amounts of public money are...

In a debate with much intense feeling, I would like to highlight the fact that there are some are...

I was a remainer, too, and I welcome the fact that a statement of the broad parameters of the Bri...

I absolutely agree. It is vital that we get the best deal—not that we have the power to determine...

I welcome the motion tabled by the official Opposition and I had been planning to vote to support...

Does the hon. Lady agree that some things we are voting on tonight totally disregard respect for ...

I absolutely agree with the hon. Lady’s point about the devolved Administrations. Her party has p...

Is the hon. Lady as concerned as I am that 40,000 people a year are dying of diesel pollution in ...

Order. May I just point out to the hon. Gentleman that he has just spoken and he is going to prev...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. In broad terms, I agree with the point the hon. Gentleman is making about ...

Order. Matt Warman is the next speaker. We have eight would-be contributors and I would like to a...

Over the past few days, Mr Speaker, I have not seen as much of you as I might have liked, partly ...

I support the motion and, after some consideration, the Government amendment. I am prepared to su...

It is a pleasure to take part in this debate. I have two minutes and 58 seconds to say an awful l...

I do not think either side should resort to attacking the voters on the other side. I did say tha...

That is where I must disagree with my right hon. and learned Friend. Leaving the EU, as we have h...

I congratulate my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer) on...

Whether people like it or not, the referendum result gave the Government a very clear mandate to ...

I am intrigued to follow the hon. Member for Monmouth (David T. C. Davies), but I would hope that...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is important that the Government are respectful of all poli...

I thank the hon. Lady; I could not agree more. That is exactly what I was leading up to. When we ...

As the Order Paper states very clearly, this debate is about the Government’s plan for Brexit, an...

I voted to remain in the European Union, as did 75% of my constituents, so it is not surprising t...

I am very grateful to you, Mr Speaker—you have managed our debate—for allowing me to speak, becau...

My hon. Friend is a distinguished historian. Is there any precedent for the fact that the Conserv...

There is no precedent for this. One Labour resident of Islington—a friend of mine—said to me, “Th...

For the benefit of the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Kwasi Kwarteng),