European Union (Withdrawal) Act

Is it not also the case that the Government spent more than £9 million of taxpayers’ money on a l...

The very act of spending that £9 million, given the outcome of the referendum, shows quite how ea...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I do not make points of order lightly, as you know. The Prime Mi...

The hon. Gentleman has put his point on the record, and it is there for people to observe if they...

The hon. Gentleman confirms my wisdom in not giving way to him.

It is clear that there are ...

I will give way in a moment.

The UK has an excellent economic success story to tell. Since ...

Is not the key prize of leaving the EU that this country will be able to do trade deals around th...

I will come to the specifics of the freedom to negotiate free trade agreements and the Opposition...

The Secretary of State said that there were three possible outcomes to our deliberations. Actuall...

As you well know, Mr Speaker, it depends what any amendment says, but the Government will seek to...

I have a lot of admiration for my right hon. Friend. He is a much more experienced Member of Parl...

As the law stands, were there to be no changes, we would automatically leave the European Union o...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way, particularly as when we stood on our manife...

As usual, my right hon. Friend makes her point concisely. The argument has come from a wide range...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I give way to the hon. Member for Feltham and Heston (Seema Malhotra), who was the first to stand...

The Secretary of State is making a very important point about our need to increase trade deals an...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising a very important point. Yes, the Government’s intentio...

Will the Secretary of State confirm that when we leave the European Union we will be the biggest ...

That is why it is to our mutual advantage to get a free trade agreement with the European Union. ...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I will give way again in a little while.

World trade is at a pivotal moment. We are at the ...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I will give way to the hon. Lady, if only because of her patience and tenacity.

I thank the Secretary of State very much. Shortly after the referendum, when he first took up the...

Perhaps the hon. Lady was not listening to the answer I gave earlier, but that process is getting...

Specifically on e-commerce, the Government promised that in early 2019, the new online service fo...

The Department for International Trade is putting increased resources into improving the elements...

The Secretary of State has been a great champion for global Britain—or, as I would like to call i...

I will not go back over the ground that the Prime Minister went over extensively this afternoon, ...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way? [Interruption.]

Why not? I will give way to the hon. Gentleman again. I am feeling extraordinarily generous.

I am grateful that the right hon. Gentleman could not find any better alternatives. Does he accep...

The hon. Gentleman should not put himself down in that way; that is normally the business of thos...

My right hon. Friend will be aware that last week the Prime Minister met a group of Members from ...

I think that my right hon. and learned Friend, in making his points so succinctly, has just saved...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his speech and particularly on his fortitude in his attitu...

Our freedom to negotiate free trade agreements will be dependent on the level of alignment that w...

I will make some progress. I am cognisant of the fact that some 80 Members are down to speak in t...

Can the Secretary of State tell the House whether he believes that a deal with the United States ...

No one who has ever done a negotiation with the United States would use the word “easy” to descri...

rose—

I will give way to the hon. Lady in a moment.

Let me just say something briefly about two o...

The Secretary of State is making a case against all the alternatives, but is it not the case, as ...

But we will be taking those decisions. That is the whole point of leaving the European Union: tho...

I will give way one more time in a moment.

There are also Members of this House who have ad...

My right hon. Friend is making a very impassioned speech in support of the Prime Minister’s deal....

I have to say in all candour to my hon. Friend that having spoken to a number of my colleagues in...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I have already given way to the hon. Lady and I will not do so again.

This was further conf...

Is not the point about the future trade relationship and the opportunities for global Britain tha...

As usual, my hon. Friend makes a very good point very clearly. There are, across the House, a num...

I will give way one more time before I finish.

It is time to consign the divisions of the r...

For many months, we have been confronted with a series of choices and a series of false choices. ...

The hon. Gentleman talks about the importance of uniting the House. Will he unite with me in reje...

I will conclude on exactly the point that the hon. Gentleman raises, because it is at the heart o...

I am grateful for how the hon. Gentleman is setting out his arguments, but if he feels that he wa...

The Secretary of State makes a bewildering point, because I did not talk about being ill informed...

You are criticising—[Interruption.] I do apologise, Mr Speaker; Even Homer nods. The hon. Gentlem...

The hon. Gentleman is extremely courteous and always punctilious about the truth of what is said ...

Will the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that the cross-Government modelling to which he refers looked...

Of course it was right to look at the 15-year long-term assessment. Nobody is disputing that. Ind...

As a member of that Committee, I share the hon. Gentleman’s concerns about the modelling, and I d...

Oh dear, Mr Speaker!

It is precisely this lack of specificity that has left Members across ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the problems of regulatory alignment with very different actors su...

I am pleased that I gave way to my hon. Friend, who has said what it is critical to understand on...

rose—

I will give way to the right hon. Gentleman in a minute—and quicker than his right hon. Friend th...

I admire the tone in which the hon. Gentleman is making his remarks. May I ask him about the free...

I am delighted to say that the rest of my speech will be doing precisely that; I hope it will sat...

Is my hon. Friend aware that, before the referendum, the right hon. Member for Uxbridge and South...

I am glad to say that the one thing that I can honestly claim I have no responsibility for are th...

rose—

No, I will not give way again to the right hon. Gentleman.

I move on to immigration, which ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No. I have not spoken for as long as the Secretary of State and I do not intend to, but 80 Member...

Give way.

The hon. Gentleman may not have noticed, but I did give way.

Students should never have bee...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No.

Actually, what is not helpful to the debate is to dismiss the existing economic modelli...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will.

Will the hon. Gentleman concede that it is entirely possible that the current Treasury forecasts ...

I think we should look at what actually happened, and it is relevant to the point that the Secret...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No.

Perhaps I can read from article 8 of the TFEU:

“The Union shall develop a special...

I will not give way as I am moving to my conclusion.

A new customs union in which the UK wo...

I recognise that time is short, so I will not go on for too long and I will not take too many int...

My right hon. Friend is making some good points, and he has a great deal of experience from his p...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention, and I know that it was well meant, but I s...

My right hon. Friend says that his concerns over supporting the Government’s deal and the withdra...

My position is that we go back and get a better deal. That is the reality, because I believe that...

It is an honour to speak for the Scottish National party on the second-to-last day of our second ...

In the early 1990s, I worked in the haulage industry as a lorry driver making just-in-time delive...

Things were a bit different in 1993 from how they are now. We have customs checks that are requir...

Does the hon. Lady agree it is surprising we did not have a clearer answer on that from the Secre...

I agree that it is absolutely vital. It is interesting that the Secretary of State was unable to ...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. Following BMW-Mini and Toyota, the Honda plant in Swi...

It is complete chaos. It is ridiculous that businesses are having to prepare for a no deal becaus...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech on the perils. I wonder whether the Chancellor would...

I think the UK Government are trying to say as little as possible about the economic analysis bec...

My hon. Friend is making a fantastic point. Is not the core of her argument that nobody, however ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. People were told stories about unicorns and mermaids. They we...

It is interesting to watch the faces of Conservative Members as my hon. Friend lays out, in stark...

My hon. Friend must have read my mind, because I was just about to move on to medicines. The Nuff...

Order. A further 72 right hon. and hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye in tonight and tomorr...

I had never rebelled against the Government before this month. I wish to use the brief time I hav...

I hope the House will forgive me if I speak to the global context; after all, we are debating the...

This deal simply does not deliver on the will of the people—it cannot do so mathematically. It is...

I know that my hon. Friend is a supporter of a second referendum, so let me take this opportunity...

My hon. Friend makes a valid point, but the point is that if this House agreed to a referendum Bi...

But effectively the deal will be dead tomorrow, so the premise of the people’s vote will be dead ...

As it happens, I do not agree, but I do not think that any of us should pretend that it is for us...

If Parliament voted down the deal tomorrow, the deal could be resurrected again for the people’s ...

If the deal does come back to this House—and once the Labour party has gone through its processol...

The result of the 2016 referendum left me absolutely devastated, but I hoped that we would be abl...

The hundreds of constituents who have written to me demanding that I vote down this deal divide i...

It is good to follow the right hon. Member for New Forest West (Sir Desmond Swayne). I want to sp...

In line with what my hon. Friend has said, just after the Joint Report back in December 2017, I a...

My hon. Friend is correct.

I will continue with the Prime Minister’s answer:

“The hon...

I guess the question I have for the hon. Gentleman is this: what is the alternative? Michel Barni...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but it is very interesting that, a week or 10 d...

Specifically, Ireland is part of the European Union, and the European Union has said very clearly...

With the greatest respect to the hon. Gentleman, he has been long enough about this House to know...

I will be as brief as I possibly can be; these points must be made. When people around the world ...

If this Brexit debate does not cover the bread and butter issues for my Blackpool constituents an...

There are two particular matters that I would like to raise. First, I will refer to the vast inte...

Order. Just before I call the hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Nic Dakin), I must point out what some ...

Come over here.

No, not to cross the Floor of the House—it was a nice try by the right hon. Gentleman, and I do n...

Last year, we commemorated the centenary of the end of the first world war. It was a sombre remem...

I am afraid that the limit has to be reduced to four minutes.

9.31 pm

I am grateful to be able to speak in this historic debate before what will be one of the most imp...

I have received hundreds of emails, letters and calls from constituents over just the last few we...

The task before Members of this House is simple: we must deal with reality not fantasy; we must b...

Does my hon. Friend think that any responsible Government could in all conscience inflict no deal...

No, I do not, to be blunt.

There is only one way out of our mess: ask the people to decide ...

The Prime Minister, in interpreting the outcome of the referendum and handling negotiations with ...

I want to speak about the exercise of political authority, the character of entitlement and the n...

There was nothing inevitable about reaching this impasse. In reality, the Brexit we have before u...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hove (Peter Kyle), who voted against article 50 an...

Order. The hon. Gentleman has the benefit of the clock. I am sorry to stop him, because I enjoy l...

In May, I gave a speech in this place calling on the Government to put aside their differences an...

Representing a constituency that voted mostly remain, but having voted leave myself, I have been ...

The UK Government seem to be repeating on a loop cycle after cycle of inane attempts to pacify th...

In common with many others on both sides of this House, I sent out an email on the eve of the ref...

The agreement is flawed in many ways, not least because we would be subject to the binding rules ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We were clear during the campaign that the areas over which w...

The referendum in 2016 was an event that I assumed would be followed by the new Prime Minister re...

The problem with the withdrawal agreement is that it does not do what the Conservative party said...

I can reassure my hon. Friend that if he takes just a minute longer, he might persuade me to join...

I am delighted to hear that. I think there will be a cascade of Members going into the Lobby to v...

How on earth do I sum up in the little time I have my feelings and grave concerns about the bigge...

I believe that, ultimately, the final Brexit settlement has to be a compromise between leave and ...

Despite significant inward investment in our area, my constituency voted to leave in 2016, and I ...

I would be the first to concede that the Prime Minister did not inherit the best hand in the nego...

I also rise to speak against the deal, but it is clear that the House now needs an opportunity to...

It is a real pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell), although we...

I am eternally grateful, Mr Speaker, that you have called me slightly earlier than I thought you ...

I am not an ideologue on Brexit; I campaigned hard to remain in 2016, and do not regret having le...

Rotherham voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU, and I take very seriously my job to represent my ...

It seems many years ago that I was one of the 81 Conservative rebels who voted for an in/out refe...

As we reflect on this debate and those of the last few days, weeks and months—and indeed for the ...

A majority of the voters in my constituency voted leave in the referendum, and they have told me ...

I am grateful for this opportunity to speak in today’s debate, because the prosperity of our coun...

The remain campaign had everything going for it. It had the endorsement of all the political part...

It is estimated that 63% of people in Batley and Spen voted to leave the EU. Since then, if the r...

There is a lot of opposition to the deal in the Chamber, and most people recognise that it is pro...

When people in Ilford North and throughout the country voted to leave, they did so for many reaso...

With regret, I cannot support this agreement, so I will vote against it tomorrow evening. That is...

In the past two years, Brexit has become that unspeakable subject. This Christmas, most of our co...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy) in this historic debat...

The Glasgow Central constituency voted 71% to remain, and we certainly did not vote for this Gove...

I rise in support of the Prime Minister’s withdrawal agreement, and I do so because I believe in ...

Order.

11.53 pm

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Bim Afolami). I rise to opp...

I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine).

The outcome ...

Seventy per cent. of my constituents voted remain in June 2016. From my inbox of about 5,000 lett...

I spent eight years campaigning against European integration. I worked for the successful campaig...

Like all colleagues, I have been inundated with emails from my constituents about the withdrawal ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Melanie Onn). Perhaps I just need t...

Good morning, Mr Speaker. I, too, was hoping to catch your eye on 10 December, but the Prime Mini...

Like most of coastal Britain, Waveney and Lowestoft voted to leave. There was a variety of reason...

This is the issue on which I—and, I am sure, most other Members—have been contacted most by const...

It is an honour to speak for a brief few minutes in this historic debate, and an honour to follow...

It gives me pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Witney (Robert Courts).

The debate on ou...

The choice is stark: we can either follow the wishes of the majority and deliver Brexit, as my co...

We have come a long way since June 2016. There is no more hiding from the fact that any Brexit wi...

It is a pleasure to speak after the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse).

Too often in this...

It is a great honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake)...

Our duty in debating the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 this evening is not to focus on wha...

I am delighted to be the last Back Bencher standing to conclude the debate before the Front Bench...

I congratulate all the contributors to today’s many faceted debate. It has been a healthy and str...

What is Labour’s plan?

I will come on to that—[Interruption.] I will come on to that, if the right hon. Gentleman will a...

The shadow Chancellor says that the prediction is that a no-deal Brexit could cost the UK economy...

The consequence predicted by the Bank of England is about the long-term impact over time. Yes, we...

Perhaps the shadow Chancellor would like to tell us exactly what his deal would be.

I will come on to that.

We believe that this is a bad deal because of the advice we have be...

The former head of the European Council’s legal service, responding to the shadow International T...

The hon. Gentleman clearly has not been listening. My hon. Friend the Member for Brent North (Bar...

This has been a wide-ranging and interesting debate that has exposed clearly the different and pa...

The Chancellor is praising other people for compromise, but if the deal is defeated tomorrow, wil...

The deal that the Prime Minister has presented to Parliament very clearly is a compromise between...

Has the Chancellor by any chance read the powerful letter in today’s Financial Times from the for...

I have been making effectively the same point myself for about the last year. We concluded that t...

rose—

I will give way briefly to the hon. Gentleman and then I must make some progress.

Will the Chancellor explain to us, then, how this deal gives our country more say in how Europe d...

Without wishing to digress too far, the simple point is this. Under an EEA model, the whole of th...

I am grateful to the Chancellor for giving way. Throughout this process he has been far and away ...

Mr Speaker, we are engaged in a debate here and, whether the hon. Member likes it or not, a numbe...

Will the Chancellor give way?

I will not give way; I need to make some progress.

It is clear to me that the majority of t...

I thank the Chancellor for giving way. He has just said that it is right for this country to do B...

It is very clear, and I have had the discussion in the Chamber many times, that the closer our re...

Will my right hon. Friend confirm that all the statistics, which are being thrown around somewhat...

My hon. Friend is of course right. A number of hon. Members have appeared to suggest in their rem...

I thank the Chancellor for his generous comments earlier about my contribution. To be clear—I say...

The hon. Lady acknowledges something that the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said in his co...

We have heard once again that the backstop is undesirable and no one wants it. We have heard that...

I do not know how much engagement my right hon. Friend has with the insurance industry, but it wo...

Despite what the Chancellor has just set out, the reality is that nothing he has described tonigh...

It is a balance, and I have personally come to the conclusion that the damage that would be done ...