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Finance (No. 2) Bill

Proceeding contribution from Peter Dowd (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 11 December 2017. It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance (No. 2) Bill.

Let us have a general election and we will deliver on those promises.

On Brexit, there is no abating the deep divisions between warring Cabinet Ministers. Within a few hours of the ink drying on the joint statement between the Prime Minister and the European Commission and the agreement to move on to trade talks, we had the Environment Secretary contradicting the Prime Minister and briefing the press that unhappy leave voters can tear up any Brexit deal that is negotiated, while on the Sunday talk shows the Brexit Secretary undermined the Prime Minister further by downgrading the agreement reached to merely a “statement of intent”. Given that there is much talk of a divorce bill, perhaps I can take the matrimonial analogy a little further. Do people make proposals of marriage or simply statements of intent? Did the Brexit Secretary propose to his wife or make a statement of intent?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
633 c76 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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