European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill

Tell us, please.

Mr Bone asks me to tell the House; there is no need.

Thank you, Mrs Laing. To continue my point, our departure will clearly have implications for the ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the fact that the Government have been dragged to court on three o...

I do indeed, which is why environmental protection is embedded in new clause 2, which also—

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No; I shall try to make progress. I think Members will acknowledge that I have been fairly genero...

My hon. Friend makes a compelling argument about that aspect of scientific research. I do not kno...

I absolutely do. I was not at that meeting yesterday, but I was at a meeting of medical research ...

I thank the shadow Minister for so generously giving way. He probably knows that the Culham Centr...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his point. A very effective way of applying pressure to save that ...

The shadow Minister makes a very important point. These hugely important research projects in nuc...

Yes, I do agree; my hon. Friend makes a very important point. I press Ministers to give greater c...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will not. I should respond to Mrs Laing’s appeal for us to make progress.

It has been...

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I will not give way, because I wish to make progress.

The organisation also helps to ensure...

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I was providing the opportunity to those who can make a useful commitment. Their silence says eve...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will not.

Clearly, there is much more to be said about our future relationship. There...

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I will draw my remarks to a close.

Order. The House must allow the shadow Minister to draw his remarks to a close, or no one else wi...

Thank you, Mrs Laing. I draw my remarks to a close with the simple point that our new clauses pro...

I find myself in agreement with new clause 2, which makes perfectly sensible statements about wha...

Given that the list in new clause 2 exactly matches some of the things in the White Paper, it is ...

That is a very powerful point. I could add others. It is a great pity that it does not mention th...

I heard the right hon. Gentleman’s wish list at the beginning of his speech. Has he grasped the f...

No, it clearly is not. The hon. Gentleman has not been listening to what I have been saying. The ...

Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman would like to reconsider what he just said. He said the whole po...

Well, why have we not had a sensible fishing policy for the past 40 years? It is because we have ...

The right hon. Gentleman’s example was of fishing policy, so does he agree as a point of fact tha...

I agree that Norway decided to sacrifice control of her borders to get certain other things from ...

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely wrong. Norway was part of the Nordic free movement area wi...

Norway is now part of a freedom of movement area far bigger than that, and that was part of its d...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that if Opposition Members are serious about the flourishing of o...

That is quite right, and they also ignore the whole of the rest of the world. It so happens that ...

Does the right hon. Gentleman note that although the shadow Minister made no mention of the impor...

The hon. Gentleman has made his own point, and we all wish Northern Ireland well.

First, let me congratulate my right hon. Friend on recognising that there is nothing in new claus...

Of course there is a dispute resolution procedure when we enter a free trade agreement or any oth...

The right hon. Gentleman argues that our membership of the EU inhibits our ability to trade with ...

It is quite obvious that Germany will export more at the early stages of development in an emergi...

What impact does the right hon. Gentleman think that that would have on Welsh agriculture and the...

I just explained that it should boost it. I am sure that more market opportunities will open up f...

May I take it from what the right hon. Gentleman has just said that in any free trade deal with N...

I am sure that that would be a very appropriate part of the discussions our country holds with Ne...

My right hon. Friend is making a very powerful case. Does he not agree that it is truly remarkabl...

I think that we have teased out something very important in this debate. The Opposition want no b...

My right hon. Friend might be interested to know that just last week I visited Randall Parker Foo...

Like my hon. Friend, I think that there are some great English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Iris...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his great speech, but I want to ask him one question that ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for drawing me back to my central point. He kindly said that I ha...

This group of amendments is about the UK’s priorities for the negotiations on withdrawal from the...

Will the hon. and learned Lady give way?

The hon. Gentleman, to whom I will give way in a moment, has a long and admirable commitment to t...

I will not make a speech now, as I hope to be called later. I just want to emphasise that there i...

Absolutely. I have with me a letter from the Deputy Chief Minister of Gibraltar, who says that he...

Before my hon. and learned Friend moves on, I think it is important to back up the hon. Member fo...

Indeed. I totally agree with my hon. Friend. The Deputy Chief Minister of Gibraltar also said in ...

Will the hon. and learned Lady give way?

I will when I have finished my point. No formal response to “Scotland’s Place in Europe” has yet ...

I thank my hon. and learned Friend for giving way; as a fellow member of the Brexit Select Commit...

The hon. Gentleman is obviously not aware that the arrangements that apply to the Isle of Man and...

My hon. and learned Friend will remember this direct quotation from The Daily Telegraph:

“T...

I am sure that Government Members would be loth to encourage the Prime Minister to break her word...

I will make some progress and then I will take some more interventions, perhaps from people who h...

Will the hon. and learned Lady give way?

No, I will not give way. We heard ample from the right hon. Gentleman the other day.

This B...

Will the hon. and learned Lady give way?

No, I will not.

Backing for a yes vote in another independence referendum has risen to 49% ...

On a point of order, Mrs Laing. On Monday, I spoke about the amendments on devolution arrangement...

Order.

Opposition Members should let me finish making my point of order to the Chair. The person who was...

The right hon. Gentleman does not need to put the record straight, because it is a matter of reco...

I am very grateful, Mrs Laing, for your clarification. Indeed, I am speaking early today, because...

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The right hon. Gentleman is terribly anxious to make an intervention. In order to put him out of ...

I am very grateful to the hon. and learned Lady. She was waxing lyrical about the importance her ...

That is called democracy. The people of Gibraltar vote for parties that wish to remain part of th...

Just on a point of clarity, it should be understood by both sides that Gibraltar is not in the Un...

I am very grateful to my hon. Friend, who, like the hon. Member for Ilford South (Mike Gapes), ha...

Will the hon. and learned Lady give way?

I will not at the moment, thank you.

I will come back to Gibraltar in a moment, but I want ...

Will the hon. and learned Lady give way?

I am going to make a little progress, and then I will give way.

The Scottish Government are...

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I will not give way to the right hon. Gentleman for the time being, but the hon. Lady was going t...

The hon. and learned Lady referenced the evidence session we had this morning with her colleague ...

I do not agree with the hon. Lady. The transcript will be available shortly, and when hon. Member...

The hon. and learned Lady very touchingly says that her document is a compromise document. Do not...

I have got some news for the right hon. Gentleman: when the United Kingdom Government go to negot...

If the right hon. Gentleman had made the same pledge as the Prime Minister made, I would expect h...

Indeed.

Many of the questions that hon. Members in this House raise with the Scottish Gover...

A few minutes ago, my hon. and learned Friend made a really important point about Norway and the ...

Indeed. It is no secret that of the minority of people in Scotland who voted to leave the EU, a s...

I give way to the Chairman of the Committee on Exiting the European Union.

Is not the fundamental difficulty with the document’s proposal about the possibility of Scotland ...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for raising this issue, because it highlights the reaso...

Does the hon. and learned Lady agree that in the event that Scotland was in the single market and...

The SNP’s position on the peace process has been made very clear in this House: we would wish to ...

Does the hon. and learned Lady recognise that if the Government did accept that they could negoti...

Indeed. As usual, the hon. Gentleman makes his point with great force and great clarity. The diff...

Is my hon. and learned Friend as surprised as I am, given the apparent suggestion that it would b...

Indeed. We made it clear in this document that we felt it would be to the advantage of the whole ...

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I am going to make a bit of progress because I am conscious that a lot of other people are wishin...

I am grateful to my hon. and learned Friend for taking Scotland into account. I hope that the pro...

Order. I give the hon. Gentleman a lot of leeway, but it is this Bill that we are discussing righ...

I am bringing my remarks to a conclusion, Mrs Laing, because I am conscious that others wish to s...

On equality and protection, does my hon. and learned Friend agree that what we have seen since we...

I agree with my hon. Friend. That concern is shared by Members of many parties in this House. We ...

EU-national workers in science and research are key to research and industry in our society. We s...

Indeed. My hon. Friend takes great interest in teaching, research and science, which was her own ...

I am grateful for the chance to speak briefly. It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. and lear...

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I give way to a former Treasury official.

The right hon. Gentleman said that there was a letter from the Home Secretary. Was it a letter fo...

I may have made a faux pas. It was addressed “Dear Colleague”, and may have just been sent to me....

On a point of order, Mrs Laing. Is it appropriate for an hon. Member to refer to a document that ...

I believe it is appropriate for an hon. Member to refer to whichever document he or she might car...

Further to that point of order, Mrs Laing. Would I be in order to say that the custom and practic...

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, as ever—[Interruption]—or as often. If a letter or ...

I am already in enough trouble with my Whips, Mrs Laing, so I suppose another faux pas will not g...

My right hon. Friend has been here only as long as I have, so we are clearly both still learning ...

That is an excellent point. A difficult road lies ahead and we will have to make some pretty unsa...

We have heard much talk in the House, particularly from the Prime Minister, about the idea of glo...

The hon. Lady makes an interesting point and allows me to segue to the next issue, which is Brita...

I entirely agree and support my right hon. Friend on his first point. On his second point, does h...

That worries me, and I thank my right hon. Friend for making the point.

This is obviously a...

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I see a former Trade and Industry Minister who will correct me.

I would not dream of correcting my right hon. Friend, but I would ask him this question. When it ...

I did not accept the argument that TTIP would undermine our NHS, and I did not receive any repres...

Further to the intervention from my right hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr Li...

My argument is simply that it will be very difficult to negotiate the free trade agreements that ...

The right hon. Gentleman is being generous with his time. I agree with his point about trying to ...

I agree with the hon. Lady and that example reinforces my belief that free trade deals will not b...

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I give way to one of the great experts on the implications of leave.

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I want to cheer my right hon. Friend up a little and apologise to him as I may have inadvertently...

I will visit my hon. Friend’s constituency in April, so we can discuss the matter at length as I ...

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Talking of which, I will take an intervention from my very old friend and former BBC presenter.