Leaving the European Union

My hon. Friend raises an important point. That is why this debate is so important: to get these i...

To reinforce my hon. Friend’s point, according to the Bank of England, two thirds of warehouses h...

As the sitting was suspended for 15 minutes, 15 minutes will be added to the end as injury time, ...

My hon. Friend the Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Rushanara Ali) was in the middle of her inte...

I wanted to highlight the fact that, according to the Bank of England, warehouses are already run...

My hon. Friend speaks from the experience that we have shared as members of the Treasury Committe...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right that those are the other important issues that we should be dir...

The hon. Lady makes some excellent and important points. It is good that they are now on the reco...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech on an important issue. Does she agree that, with the...

My hon. Friend succinctly says what I will say in more words.

I agree, and hon. Members are...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova)

My hon. Friend is making an eloquent speech about the petitions and the need for us to remain par...

It is a strong point. I have been clear about the potential ramifications of the Prime Minister’s...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent point about people who still want to leave the European Uni...

Absolutely. So much has become evident since the referendum vote in 2016 and we all, including th...

I thank the hon. Lady for giving way. Hearing your speech—

Her speech.

Hearing her speech makes me believe that she is trying to give the public the option of Brexit in...

Absolutely. We had a referendum in 2016 that put the basic question, “Do you want to leave the Eu...

My hon. Friend mentions what happened last Friday afternoon. It is extraordinary that Parliament ...

Yes; many hon. Members were disturbed by the scenes they witnessed on Friday directly and on the ...

People talk about the divisiveness of a second referendum, which seems to be the biggest reason n...

The hon. Lady makes the point well. There are people who think that the radical approach of democ...

That is indeed an extremely impressive total of petition signatories. Therefore, would the hon. M...

Clearly not. Before turning to the content of this petition—

My hon. Friend is being very generous in giving way, but that was a bit of sophistry that we have...

My hon. Friend has put that very well.

Before turning to the content and substance of this ...

On this point about the number of signatures—in my constituency, there were more than 9,500 signa...

I am sure that is now on the record and as the Petitions Committee, which is a formal cross-party...

May I just encroach one more time?

indicated assent.

The hon. Lady is being terribly courteous and I really appreciate it. Let us just try this new fo...

May I clarify matters for the right hon. Gentleman, because he does not seem to understand the na...

I thank the hon. Lady for giving way and I will just reinforce that point. As someone who was ele...

Indeed, because what this petition —combined with the million-plus people who gave up their Satur...

The hon. Lady is generous in giving way. I come back to the suggestion that after each election s...

That is an important point, which is now on the record.

I thank the hon. Lady for giving way again. To raise a contrary point to the one just made by the...

No, I completely disagree with that. I have already set out very clearly my views and my concerns...

Perhaps, then, the hon. Lady would like to tell us why the remain Bank of England/Treasury foreca...

Many of the predictions that were made—for example, that we would see a stall in investment or th...

Does my hon. Friend agree that since this whole affair began there has been no parliamentary sove...

My hon. Friend speaks with great wisdom and insight.

From speaking to my constituents, I am...

As we have heard, the Electoral Commission found Vote Leave and Leave.EU guilty of corrupt activi...

Those concerns are being expressed by many members of the public as they watch the reality of the...

There is one slight difference between the hon. Lady’s examples and what happened in 2016, when t...

The right hon. Gentleman seems a bit stuck in the past. What we are talking about today is what w...

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I think the Minister wants me to give way.

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I was hoping the right hon. Gentleman would make a speech.

I am sorry; I thought the hon. Lady wanted an answer now. I think there are three possibilities: ...

We can agree to disagree on that.

I will congratulate the hon. Lady properly later. She mentioned that things had moved on and that...

What is so difficult about the debate is that it has wedded itself to events in the past, rather ...

Has this petition not shown clearly what the People’s Vote is about, and made its veil drop? One ...

I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman has been here for the full debate. [Hon. Members: “He hasn’...

No, the hon. Gentleman did not.

He did.

Order. I am perfectly certain that the hon. Gentleman was not suggesting that the hon. Lady was b...

He did.

I think he did not. However, Hansard will tell. But I am sure that he was not intending to do so....

Thank you, Mr Gray. The hon. Member for South Thanet (Craig Mackinlay) did suggest that I should ...

A glance around the Chamber demonstrates that a great many Members wish to take part in this deba...

The petition that I particularly wish to address is that signed by over 6 million members of the ...

The hon. Gentleman may know that I tabled the Terms of Withdrawal from the European Union (Refere...

My hon. Friend has been very prescient on this issue. He has been consistent throughout—as have m...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. I rise in particular to speak on the ...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

No, I will continue. I met a manufacturing employer just over a week ago. We are also due to lose...

It is a big honour not only to serve under your chairship, Mr Gray, but to speak in this debate. ...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will not, because many Members want to speak.

One reason that people have been inspired t...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray. The Brexit negotiations over the past...

I am sure the hon. Lady is as curious as I am about tonight’s documentary with Laura Kuenssberg, ...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. It will indeed be interesting to see that documentary...

I merely point out that the remain campaign heavily outspent the leave campaign and the Governmen...

I simply say to the right hon. Gentleman that only the leave campaign was found by the Electoral ...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray, and also a pleasure to follow my neig...

The hon. Gentleman raises important points from the paper. I am sure he saw the Treasury Monetary...

I am just quoting from the Minister’s own document. Technically, he is—dare I say it?—the Ministe...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

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I will finish on this point: above all, the people who will be most angered by us allowing the co...

As I mentioned, on 6 July 2016 I introduced the Terms of Withdrawal from EU (Referendum) Bill to ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will not give way—we have heard enough from you already, thank you. [Interruption.] We did ...

Just talk to each other then. [Interruption.]

I am sorry that Government Members have decided to leave, after multiple interventions to hear so...

I appreciate that everybody’s diaries are incredibly busy in Westminster, but I find it extraordi...

I completely agree. We have seen 6 million people in a matter of days saying, “Enough is enough—w...

Further to the previous intervention, in the last debate in Westminster Hall we had exactly the s...

People have the right to exercise their views, whether to leave or to remain, and increasingly pe...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe, in what has been an interesting, hi...

It is a pleasure to speak under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe. May I put it on record how proud I ...

I cannot compete with my hon. Friend—Hammersmith has only 22,346 signatories, although that is 30...

My hon. Friend is correct. Even though a very small percentage of my constituents voted to leave ...

Our relationship with Europe continues to divide communities and generations. Many people see the...

It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe. I thank the Petitions Committee for ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that should article 50 be revoked, that needs to be in conjunction with...

I very much agree; we cannot have enough democracy. One of the questions that needs to be answere...

Businesses are affected, and many of them do not know who they will employ in the future, what su...

Absolutely; I agree. The handling of the no-deal nightmare cliff edge has not been the greatest m...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe.

“If a democracy cannot change...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North (Catherine McKinnell) on h...

It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr McCabe. There have been some terrific co...

Does the hon. Lady agree that there is a real risk of another Windrush situation developing if th...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right. I hope that the Minister is hearing this, because it greatly c...

I will be swift. I am sure that the hon. Lady will confirm that the substantial majority of those...

Absolutely. I completely associate myself with that comment. My constituency is particularly mult...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe.

I thank all the Members who h...

Will the hon. Lady clarify what Labour’s position is tonight on voting in favour of the revoke mo...

Yes. We are treating tonight as the opportunity to vote for something—a way to find whether there...

Is that a whipped abstention or advisory?

Gosh, the hon. Lady invites me to make comments way above my station. I am sure she will understa...

I can confirm that my party has a free vote on that, apart from members of the Cabinet, who seem ...

I am admiring and respectful of the petition, and I understand the reasons for it. I also do not ...

Perhaps some clarification would help: my understanding is that there is no Whip for Labour MPs o...

I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s advice, which I am sure he would have given regardless of advi...

In the last two weeks, figures have come out showing that Brexit is costing £600 million to £800 ...

There is definitely more of a sense of urgency. People feel that if they are to have their voice ...

My hon. Friend talked about the anger of some of those out there. Does she agree that there is a ...

I agree that there is anger on both sides. We have not always heard it, but in this debate collea...

Can the hon. Lady confirm that the confirmatory vote would have remain on the ballot paper?

I do not see any point in going through another exercise such as that without having remain on th...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe, which is a first for me. I shall tr...

I would be interested to know where the Minister got that figure. Officially, Newcastle as a city...

I always read the paper that my mother reads; it is very important to know where she is going to ...

I know the estimated percentage of my constituents who voted leave. It is 56.7%. However, I have ...

I think that is a completely honourable position for the hon. Gentleman to take. The hon. Member ...

On a point of fact, it is not up to the Petitions Committee where the debates are held. The Commi...

I hear what the hon. Lady says. We have a Speaker who believes in the evolution of parliamentary ...

On no-deal preparation, one thing that has been quite frustrating is the use of non-disclosure ag...

Perhaps the hon. Lady missed the email update last week to 19,000 doctors by Professor Russell Vi...

Is the Minister saying that everybody who has been asked not to disclose any issues to do with th...

I have said what I have said in public, and I will happily take that up with the hon. Lady after ...

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I will happily give way to all three hon. Members, beginning with the hon. Member for East Lothia...

I refrained from raising this in my speech, but the Conservatives also stood on a manifesto sayin...

I give way to the hon. Member for Streatham.

I thought the Minister might want to reply. The point he continues to ignore is the reason why he...

Forgive me for not answering the point made by the hon. Member for East Lothian. I was going to t...

The Minister is also ignoring what his own Chief Whip will say on BBC 2 later this evening: the G...

I tend to disagree. First, obviously I have not seen a programme that has yet to air.

It is online!

Forgive me—it is a tiny bit busy at this moment in time. Obviously I will watch and read every wo...

The one thing I struggle with is why, if the Prime Minister says with so much passion and convict...

I shall happily answer that point later in my speech.

The Minister seems to be struggling to split the hypothetical from what happened in the election....

In a way the hon. Gentleman is making the point that I was trying to make to the hon. Member for ...

Surely the point of a manifesto is to let the voters know what the party will do if and when it f...

I do not think that I was blaming hon. Members collectively. I was just making a point about what...

Does the Minister agree that it was the publication of the manifesto that was the tipping point f...

The problem is that people sometimes do not like it when politicians say one thing and do another...

I remind the Minister that we are being observed here by members of the public in the Gallery, an...

That is what I had started to do. Failing to deliver on the commitments that we, as politicians, ...

The Minister talks of a commitment to people’s original voting intentions but, at the very least,...

I am afraid I completely disagree.

Let me be clear. To revoke article 50 or to hold a secon...

I thank the Minister for his reply. I was perhaps being a little unfair on him when I picked him ...