United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

I am listening carefully to what the Prime Minister is saying, but why did one of his own disting...

Actually, I think that this Bill is essential for guaranteeing the economic and political integri...

Will the Prime Minister give way?

I will not.

The Bill is designed to honour that pledge and maintain those freedoms. When we...

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I give way to the hon. Gentleman, who knows a great deal about the subject.

This is a very important debate, as the Prime Minister and I know and as everyone in the House kn...

The intention of the Bill is clearly to stop any such use of the stick against this country, and ...

Does the Prime Minister agree that there is no greater obligation for MPs than to our voters, tha...

My hon. Friend is entirely right. Absurd and self-defeating as that action would be, even as we d...

Will the Prime Minister give way?

I give way to my right hon. and learned Friend .

I never object to another promotion.

I have listened carefully to what the Prime Minister s...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right in what he says. He knows a great deal about this matter, and ...

How will my right hon. Friend ensure that Derbyshire Dales lamb, grown in our country, can be enj...

I thank my hon. Friend very much. The best way for us all to be sure that such lamb can be sold t...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way, and I want to ask him, if I may, about the ...

No, not in the least. My right hon. and learned Friend can consult the Attorney General’s positio...

Hang on!

If the powers were ever needed, Ministers would return to this House with a statutory instrument ...

May I take the Prime Minister back to the question asked by the former Attorney General, the righ...

I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was listening, but I made it very clear that we do not r...

The Prime Minister will remember that we have some history in this regard. I did not want us to l...

I thank my hon. Friend for the spirit in which he asked his question and made that important poin...

I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add:

“t...

The right hon. Gentleman is getting to the nub of the matter. We have Joint Ministerial Committee...

The right hon. Gentleman and I come from different positions. I want to respect the devolution se...

Does the right hon. Gentleman think that the EU has been negotiating in good faith?

It is very interesting that the hon. Gentleman should say that because a report came out today fr...

Does the Labour party keep its word to the British voters?

Actually, yes we do, and I will tell the hon. Lady why. We respect the fact that the Conservative...

My right hon. Friend is making an extremely good speech. Would he perhaps tell the House who on e...

My hon. Friend makes an important point; I do believe it was the Prime Minister who signed the de...

Order. The right hon. Gentleman cannot give way unless he is asked to.

There you have it: he didn’t read the protocol, he hasn’t read the Bill, he doesn’t know his stuf...

Before the shadow spokesman lectures the Prime Minister about reading documentation or starts lec...

The right hon. Gentleman did not like the protocol at all. He would rather have not had the proto...

I have listened carefully to the right hon. Member’s formulation and I understand much of what he...

That is not a risk we are going to take.

So the fire alarm defence simply does not work. Th...

Before I call the Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee, I should draw to the attention of ...

It would be unconscionable for us to have left the EU lawfully, which the EU has accepted, and th...

Over the past few years, we have all witnessed this Tory Government plunging this Parliament and ...

The right hon. Gentleman is making points that go to the heart of the Bill, and I share his worri...

The hon. Lady is correct about that, because we know that the Government have got into trouble wi...

We can see from the right hon. Gentleman’s speech so far that he clearly shares many of the conce...

I am grateful for the question. We will be voting against this Bill this evening but we will not ...

I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman shares my dismay that the non-discrimination clause would...

The right hon. Member makes a very good point. There are policies that we are very proud of intro...

Don’t be so hard on yourself.

The sneering contempt that we get from the Minister for the Cabinet Office—he really ought to be ...

How?

I hear the Cabinet Office Minister shout, “How?” Perhaps he should go and talk to the General Tea...

I will endeavour to prove that the best advocacy can be the most concise.

There is a great ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that one thing that should give us some optimism about the use of the m...

My right hon. and learned Friend is absolutely right. That is, I think, the best approach for us ...

Further to that, does my hon. Friend not agree that, while there will be some who are still on th...

I agree entirely with my hon. Friend, and I do hope that the Government will listen carefully to ...

I have to say, from listening to the Prime Minister and watching the growing dissent on the Gover...

In the limited time that, unfortunately, is available to us, I want to focus on the protection of...

Why?

If the hon. Member gives me a moment, I will continue the argument and he can make an interventio...

I am sorry, but I have been asking for money to make good the problems that we have had with floo...

The hon. Member has made my point. He recognises that the areas of policy that he is talking abou...

The warnings that my party gave about the withdrawal agreement when it was discussed at the end o...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson), who served with ...

The focus of today’s debate ought to have been on the functioning of the internal market, and the...

I welcome the Bill as a reasonable and essential step for our Government to take in the light of ...

The hon. Lady has put her finger right on the issue that affects Northern Ireland: under the prot...

I thank the hon. Gentleman—a true patriot, putting our country’s interest above the EU’s.

E...

In a “specific and limited way” is how the Prime Minister uses the words integrity and good faith...

Is it not a fact that over a 10-year period the Scottish block grant has been cut by the Conserva...

I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. The people of Scotland are wise to these tricks and c...

I cannot go all the way with the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Drew ...

I have been a Member of this House for a good many years, but this is the worst piece of draft le...

Is the hon. Gentleman fully aware of the frustration among communities in Wales that so much mone...

What I am aware of is that many communities across Wales are fed up of Tory cuts. Despite the dif...

All through the Brexit debates and the referendum campaign, we were constantly reminded that we s...

I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. He was a wonderful Chairman of the Northern Ireland ...

My hon. Friend is wrong—or perhaps premature; I am not quite sure—to elevate me to the Privy Coun...

“I believe that these arrangements are in the interests of Northern Ireland and the UK as a whole...

The Prime Minister has warned us that a threat has been made to interpret the agreement in such a...

I never thought I would ever see a piece of legislation this objectionable put before the House. ...

Rarely can a few words uttered from the Government Dispatch Box have overshadowed a debate like t...

Is that now the measure of how we are going to go forward with international treaties: when count...

I do not think it is a matter to be done casually and without very great care, but, as many right...

What a self-made mess this Government find themselves in, and it was beautifully articulated by t...

My hon. Friend makes a fine point: it is not credible and there has been bluff after bluff. Is it...

My hon. Friend hits the nail squarely on the head. That is absolutely true. They knew exactly wha...

Just like the overwhelming majority of Members, I was returned to this House on the promise of ge...

I appreciate the points that the hon. Gentleman is making; they are important to the debate. Is h...

I am mildly surprised. I worked for some time for the Pentagon and the State Department, and I kn...

There have also been other legal opinions sought, one of which was from Martin Howe QC. He refers...

My great problem with the Government’s position is the predicament in which they have placed peop...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government have been put in this situation only because the EU...

I entirely agree with my hon. Friend in as much as the EU has not been playing with a straight ba...

If any of my constituents are watching this afternoon, I think they will be wondering what on ear...

I am sorry that it is really politically inconvenient for Brexit to come back to this Chamber bec...

I think my constituents will expect a little bit better than that. They will expect the Governmen...

At the heart of it, is not the issue that this whole thing comes across as a giant piece of bluff...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. The timing is very interesting. We are at a point when m...

Will the hon. Member give way?

I will not, because we are very short of time. Speaking to the House earlier, the Prime Minister ...

The majority of the Bill is sensible and necessary for an effective United Kingdom single market ...

That is the nub of the argument, is it not? These are exceptional circumstances. We are about to ...

If my right hon. Friend will allow me, I will address exactly that point and what the Government ...

The answer is that any question in European law, under article 174 of the withdrawal agreement, h...

My right hon. Friend might be right to be sceptical about the Court of Justice of the European Un...

Sometimes a piece of legislation comes along that is just so audacious, pernicious and chaotic th...

Did the hon. Member not oppose the Northern Ireland protocol because it discriminated against the...

I think the hon. Gentleman may be confusing me with somebody else. I say ever so candidly to him ...

After the next speaker, we will reduce the time limit to three minutes. I am sorry about that, bu...

Following the speech of the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart), I simply s...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I apologise to the hon. Gentleman; I like debating with him and he has tried to get in plenty of ...

It has been a pleasure to hear the erudite legal arguments tonight from Members including the rig...

It is always a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Meg Hil...

I am appalled by this Bill, and I have been trying to think why. The conclusion that I have reach...

The withdrawal agreement is a profoundly self-contradictory document, and never more so than in r...

This law is a scoundrel’s charter. I was taught as a child that it was the quintessence of Britis...

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant).

This is of co...

I agree with the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr Mitchell): this Bill breaks the rule ...

In the short time available to me, I want to focus on the aspects most relevant to Scotland. This...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Bill strengthens the Union rather than weakens it as Oppositio...

I am grateful for that point and completely agree with my hon. Friend. The Bill not only protects...

As my hon. Friend knows, this Parliament is the guarantor of people’s freedoms. That is not about...

I absolutely will support the Bill with enthusiasm. It protects the 500,000 jobs in Scotland that...

It is a pleasure to follow my fellow Unionist from Scotland, and I agree with him. The first ques...

Clause 47 ensures that as a sovereign nation, the UK will set the rules on state aid for Northern...

I simply pose the question: how does it threaten the Good Friday agreement to ensure that people ...

I very much agree with the right hon. Gentleman and shall be supporting the Bill tonight, because...

At the heart of the Belfast/Good Friday agreement is the principle that every signatory to that a...

I inform the House that the wind-ups will begin at 9.40.

8.8 pm

As ever, it is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Sir Jeffrey M. Donald...

It seems to me that some arguments we are hearing this evening are broadly about international la...

If these provisions are entirely within the protocol, why are the Government saying that they are...

That is a matter for the Government to answer; I do not believe that we are breaking internationa...

For over 20 years now, the people of Scotland have had a Parliament to call their own. Since the ...

I hope I will not be too foul tempered tonight, Mr Deputy Speaker; it is not a disposition I warm...

The Prime Minister said that the Northern Ireland protocol was a very, very ingenuous scheme—sorr...

We need to come back to some reality about what this Bill is actually about. This Bill is about s...

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I will not give way, as a lot of people need to speak today. This is a safety net to stop the EU ...

The Prime Minister won the last election based on the promise to “get Brexit done”. That was his ...

I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. This is an important...

The Bill is a very grave mistake, and there are numerous reasons to oppose it. Any one of them by...

As Conservatives, we believe that this family of nations bound together by the Union forms the be...

The Bill started out as quite a sensible measure to protect the internal market, but it has becom...

I rise to support the Bill. Our internal market of the United Kingdom, which has been established...

We now have a different range of voices from Northern Ireland in this Parliament and I want to ma...

This evening there has been much criticism of the Prime Minister, and I think he was at fault. He...

It is clear from the Bill and from many of the contributions from Government Members, bar some no...

Great consternation is felt in Scotland about the way in which part 5 of the Bill seeks to flout ...

The Bill is necessary to secure free trade and prosperity throughout the United Kingdom, but the ...

I am a Unionist. I believe that we are stronger together and I want a functioning UK internal mar...

We should not be here today debating the Bill, not because it is wrong but because it should not ...

Diolch yn fawr, Mr Dirprwy Lefarydd. It is difficult to know where to start with the Bill, so num...

I would like to start by saying that the Government are right to bring this Bill forward. It prot...

By rushing through this legislation, this Government are treating the people of Leicester and the...

Order. I am sorry, but we have to move on, and please remember not to refer to other Members by t...

I agree with the people of Ashfield who tell me that British Members of Parliament should act in ...

I first raised the issue of the Northern Ireland border on the Monday after the referendum—I have...

I will not spend what precious minutes I have talking about what the people voted for in December...

The Labour party stands for the rule of law. We stand for the international rules-based system. W...

It is my understanding that the Government have done nothing illegal in putting this Bill before ...

This is a deeply shameful moment for our country—showing how far this toxic Government are willin...

We have heard time and again tonight that the people are watching and our reputation is on the li...

It is not your country.

It is our country. We had the Acts of Union and a referendum to have it our country. We are one f...

I have been contacted by a number of constituents about the Bill. It is of concern to many in the...

Our Union benefits us all, and I support those measures in the Bill that strengthen our Union, su...

This Bill is an outrage. We are thumbing our nose at international law, our Irish friends and EU ...

The UK has left the European Union, and we all agree on the need for clear terms for the UK’s sin...

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Leeds West (Rachel Reeves), who always make...

rose—

Not at this stage.

The Bill does not walk away from negotiations with the European Union. T...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

No.

The other thing about the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber is that sometim...

My right hon. Friend is making some clear points. Will he make it absolutely clear that any breac...

My hon. Friend, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, makes an important point. It is th...