The Government’s sheer incompetence is turning the Brexit negotiations into a national humiliation. Is it not time that the Secretary of State agreed that staying in the single market and the customs union is the only way to solve the Northern Ireland border, and indeed by staying in permanently—I say that as much for the benefit of Labour Front Benchers as for his—and that he should give the people a vote on the deal, to secure popular support for that stance?
EU Exit Negotiations
Proceeding contribution from
Tom Brake
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 5 December 2017.
It occurred during Urgent question on EU Exit Negotiations.
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2017-19
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