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Leaving the European Union

e-petition debate on Monday, 11 March 2019, in the House of Commons, led by Daniel Zeichner. The answering members were Chris Heaton-Harris and Baroness Chapman of Darlington.
Motion that this House has considered e-petition 239706 relating to leaving the European Union. Agreed to on question. Sitting adjourned without Question put.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
656 cc1-30WH 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
E-petition 239706 relating to leaving the European Union
Thursday, 7 March 2019
Research briefings
Proceeding contributions
Daniel Zeichner | 656 c1WH (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House has considered e-petition 239706 relating to leaving the Eur...

Nigel Evans | 656 c1WH (Link to this contribution)

By the hon. Gentleman’s own logic, if 135,000 people have signed the petition, does that not mean...


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Daniel Zeichner | 656 cc2-3WH (Link to this contribution)

I do not treat the referendum result with contempt. It has not been able to escape our attention ...

Jim Cunningham | 656 c3WH (Link to this contribution)

I am sure that my hon. Friend is aware that MPs for constituencies in the west midlands are very ...

Daniel Zeichner | 656 c3WH (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who speaks with great knowledge about the west midlands and the ...

Jim Cunningham | 656 c4WH (Link to this contribution)

To reinforce my hon. Friend’s point, Jaguar Land Rover has already made about 1,000 people redund...

Daniel Zeichner | 656 c4WH (Link to this contribution)

I agree entirely. Just the other day, I was calling on people when canvassing in Cambridge, and w...

John Redwood | 656 c4WH (Link to this contribution)

Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that the OECD forecasts show a general slowdown around the advanc...

Daniel Zeichner | 656 c4WH (Link to this contribution)

The OECD says all those things, but people in the motor industry are very clear that the uncertai...

Steve Double | 656 c4WH (Link to this contribution)

Is not part of the challenge that we had all these debates in 2016? The fact is that all the doom...

Daniel Zeichner | 656 cc5-6WH (Link to this contribution)

I am glad that the hon. Gentleman is very confident. I am sure that he is so confident that he is...

John Redwood | 656 c6WH (Link to this contribution)

The public who are listening to this and similar debates cannot believe that this Parliament so l...

Ronnie Cowan | 656 c6WH (Link to this contribution)

I appreciate what the right hon. Gentleman is saying, but he cannot possibly say that two and a h...

John Redwood | 656 c7WH (Link to this contribution)

Well, I know exactly what I am voting on. I am sorry if the hon. Gentleman has not prepared or re...

John Redwood | 656 c7WH (Link to this contribution)

If the hon. Gentleman wants to try again, he can try again.

Ronnie Cowan | 656 c7WH (Link to this contribution)

Okay, what about haulage companies whose drivers need European Conference of Ministers of Transpo...

John Redwood | 656 c7WH (Link to this contribution)

Well, the Government will make sure that haulage will work, and of course that is something that ...

Chris Heaton-Harris | 656 c7WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank my right hon. Friend for allowing me to intervene at this unusually early stage; I know t...

John Redwood | 656 c7WH (Link to this contribution)

Exactly. That is another way of putting my reassurance that of course things are going to work, b...

Ronnie Cowan | 656 c8WH (Link to this contribution)

If there is no fear whatever, why are the Government telling people to stockpile? Why are pharmac...

John Redwood | 656 c8WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman got the lorries thing wrong, and now he has got the drugs thing wrong. The Gov...

Ronnie Cowan | 656 c8WH (Link to this contribution)

The pharmaceutical company Martindale tells me that it needs sugar to manufacture methadone, beca...

John Redwood | 656 c8WH (Link to this contribution)

Why would somebody mount an economic blockade of Britain and not sell us their product? That is c...

David Linden | 656 c8WH (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Gentleman says that the public are losing trust in this Parliament. I put it to hi...

John Redwood | 656 c8WH (Link to this contribution)

I think the main reason people are losing confidence and trust is that all Labour and Conservativ...

Nigel Evans | 656 c9WH (Link to this contribution)

I find the situation bizarre, because it was this Parliament that gave the people the chance to h...

John Redwood | 656 cc9-10WH (Link to this contribution)

Yes, indeed. My hon. Friend makes his point very well: Parliament gave people the decision and pe...

Steve Double | 656 c10WH (Link to this contribution)

If the view is to be taken that 50 million did not vote to leave, does my right hon. Friend agree...

John Redwood | 656 c10WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes a very good point. It is also a question of understanding how representative...

David Linden | 656 c10WH (Link to this contribution)

As usual, the right hon. Gentleman is speaking with complete consistency on these issues—it is no...

John Redwood | 656 c10WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a United Kingdom matter and it was a United Kingdom referendum. As someone who believes in ...

David Linden | 656 c11WH (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Gentleman is genuinely being very generous in giving way, and he has hit the nail ...

John Redwood | 656 cc11-2WH (Link to this contribution)

Not at all, because that was an entirely truthful statement at the time. Clearly, Scotland had no...

Ronnie Cowan | 656 c12WH (Link to this contribution)

I am just curious how a national debt of £1.7 trillion can be serviced with all these tax cuts.

John Redwood | 656 cc12-3WH (Link to this contribution)

As I just explained, my measures would not increase the build-up of public debt, but would be fin...

Steve Double | 656 c13WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I thank the hon. Member for Cambridge (Daniel Zeichner)...

Nigel Evans | 656 c13WH (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend agree that one reason why people in every constituency in Lancashire, and peo...

Steve Double | 656 cc13-4WH (Link to this contribution)

I am not sure whether my hon. Friend has been looking at my notes, but that was going to be my ne...

Adam Holloway | 656 c14WH (Link to this contribution)

I do not know whether my hon. Friend’s constituents are aware—I am sure that many of mine are not...

Siobhain McDonagh | 656 c15WH (Link to this contribution)

Order. The hon. Member, who did not have the decency to arrive when the debate started, is making...

Adam Holloway | 656 c15WH (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Five Eyes and our relationship with the United States are mort...

Steve Double | 656 c15WH (Link to this contribution)

I am deliberately trying to avoid being drawn into a debate about the withdrawal agreement becaus...

David Linden | 656 c15WH (Link to this contribution)

I reflect on my experience in 2014, when the Bank of England and all the establishment figures wh...

Steve Double | 656 c15WH (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but no, there is not, because despite a...

Ronnie Cowan | 656 c16WH (Link to this contribution)

To paraphrase the hon. Gentleman, the people of Scotland did not vote “Yes” in the 2014 referendu...

Steve Double | 656 c16WH (Link to this contribution)

I say to the hon. Gentleman that those who promoted leaving the Union clearly did not sell their ...

John Redwood | 656 c16WH (Link to this contribution)

In truth, the independence movement in Scotland did not want to be independent, because they woul...

Steve Double | 656 c16WH (Link to this contribution)

It is well documented that I have not been the biggest fan of our Prime Minister during this proc...

Nigel Evans | 656 c16WH (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend agree that, in any negotiation, being able to walk away makes our position st...

Steve Double | 656 cc16-7WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes the point very well. If we say that we can only leave the EU with an agreeme...

Ronnie Cowan | 656 c17WH (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that another part of the problem is that, at the outset, the UK Gov...

Steve Double | 656 cc17-8WH (Link to this contribution)

I agree with the hon. Gentleman; as I said earlier, many mistakes were made, and some of the seri...

David Linden | 656 c18WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a great pleasure, as ever, to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McDonagh. I thank those who...

Ronnie Cowan | 656 c18WH (Link to this contribution)

The latest Twitter update is that there will be a statement to the House at 9 pm. The right hon. ...

David Linden | 656 c19WH (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for that update at 5.34 pm. A statement is expected at 9 o’clock but it may change ...

Adam Holloway | 656 c19WH (Link to this contribution)

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

David Linden | 656 c19WH (Link to this contribution)

I will—it is nice of the hon. Gentleman to drop in on us.

Adam Holloway | 656 c19WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is having a go at my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham, but is he awa...

David Linden | 656 c19WH (Link to this contribution)

I am—unlike the hon. Gentleman, I was here when the right hon. Member for Wokingham spoke earlier...

John Redwood | 656 c20WH (Link to this contribution)

That is completely untrue and I hope the hon. Gentleman will withdraw that false allegation.

David Linden | 656 cc20-1WH (Link to this contribution)

No, I will not. I will continue with my speech.

The equivalent of the entire working popula...

Siobhain McDonagh | 656 c21WH (Link to this contribution)

Order. This is the first time I have had to deal with an issue of whether to ask a Member to with...

David Linden | 656 c21WH (Link to this contribution)

Can you clarify what I am being asked to withdraw, Ms McDonagh?

Siobhain McDonagh | 656 c21WH (Link to this contribution)

As I heard it, your comments were that the right hon. Member for Wokingham had earned money as a ...

David Linden | 656 c21WH (Link to this contribution)

That is absolutely on the record. The right hon. Gentleman’s declaration of financial interests s...

John Redwood | 656 c21WH (Link to this contribution)

Ms McDonagh, I think what was at issue was the accuracy of the statement. The hon. Gentleman said...

Siobhain McDonagh | 656 c21WH (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Member for Glasgow East wish to withdraw his comments? The right hon. Member for Wo...

David Linden | 656 c21WH (Link to this contribution)

I am not willing to withdraw those comments. Indeed, I will be very happy to place a copy of the ...

Siobhain McDonagh | 656 c21WH (Link to this contribution)

The advice to me is that I cannot force the hon. Gentleman to withdraw his comments. I call Jenny...

Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 656 cc21-3WH (Link to this contribution)

It is good to see you in the Chair, Ms McDonagh. The hon. Member for Glasgow East (David Linden) ...

Adam Holloway | 656 c22WH (Link to this contribution)

I greatly appreciate the hon. Lady’s thoughtful speech, but just because the political class has ...

Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 656 c22WH (Link to this contribution)

It is not the political class that has messed it up; it is the Tory party. I do not think even so...

Adam Holloway | 656 c22WH (Link to this contribution)

I totally agree with the hon. Lady. It is an appalling spectacle to see Conservative MPs going ag...

Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 656 c22WH (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful that the hon. Gentleman agrees with me. I do not see how this could have gone much ...

Steve Double | 656 c24WH (Link to this contribution)

Is the hon. Lady’s experience the same as mine? When I have asked businesses in my constituency i...

Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 656 cc24-6WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is cheap. We are 18 days away from leaving the European Union. His party does ...

John Redwood | 656 c26WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady is asking good questions about what our business will be, but I fear our ministeria...

Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 656 c26WH (Link to this contribution)

I do not think I have ever said that a second referendum would be a good idea. It is something I ...

David Linden | 656 c26WH (Link to this contribution)

One thing that I have been finding difficult in Scotland is Labour’s position on a people’s vote....

Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 656 cc26-7WH (Link to this contribution)

We do. We would accept a people’s vote, but we would also accept a deal along the lines that I ha...

Chris Heaton-Harris | 656 cc27-30WH (Link to this contribution)

This is the first time I have served under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie, and I have been looking f...

Daniel Zeichner | 656 c30WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie. On behalf of the Petitions Committee...

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