Northern Ireland

I thank the Secretary of State for setting out how the brake will operate. Will he join me in urg...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. I was also told that this would be an impossible ask. Thr...

I call the shadow Secretary of State.

1.15 pm

My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer), the leader...

The hon. Gentleman is making an important point. For the last quarter of a century, the House has...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention and for coming to a similar view t...

My hon. Friend was right to acknowledge that Unionism had legitimate concerns about the operation...

I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s intervention and pleased that he recognised the legitimate con...

So what is the point of rushing through a vote on this, given that it is the protocol and the agr...

The right hon. Gentleman makes the argument for why he should have voted against the protocol in ...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the Government have made tremendous progress with the Windsor ...

It does show that negotiating and talking delivers more than rowing, but it also shows that peopl...

This is not only about neglect or ignorance. Does the shadow Minister recognise that Tony Blair, ...

I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s intervention and for the opportunity to have this exchange...

To give the shadow Minister some credit, he is excellent at articulating the problem. But what is...

I am grateful for that, because we will be getting to it. [Interruption.] It is interesting that ...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the agreement 25 years ago would not have been...

First, I thank the right hon. Lady for her time as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. I rea...

As you can see, there is a great deal of interest in this debate, so may I please ask Members to ...

I welcome today’s debate and vote. The Windsor framework has my full support. I also welcome the ...

Notwithstanding what my right hon. Friend has said, may I suggest that this remains unfinished bu...

Some things never change, but I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for his continued monomaniacal focu...

That was a three-minute contribution from a former Secretary of State. If everyone follows that e...

Perhaps I should begin by addressing the remarks made just now by the right hon. Member for Skipt...

I believe in the real Union of the United Kingdom and the sovereignty of its Parliament here at W...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. Obviously, he is a subject matter expert and I know h...

The heading of the statutory instrument that we are discussing in this motion is “Constitutional ...

If memory serves me right, the hon. Gentleman voted for the protocol, which did not have a Stormo...

Very simply, because we agreed that we would bring in the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, which I...

As one of the few Members of this House who was born and raised in Northern Ireland, I want to ma...

The hon. Gentleman has spoken for eight minutes now, and this is really a very time-limited debat...

I am just about to conclude by saying that this debate is about the rule of law and constitutiona...

I will try to be brief, Mr Deputy Speaker, but you will appreciate that there is a lot the DUP wo...

On that point, and in respect of any other improvements or changes that need to be made, does the...

I thank the former Secretary of State for his continued interest in Northern Ireland. I say to hi...

Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that because the EU will have powers over things such as VAT ...

I agree with the right hon. Gentleman. That is why we need a solution that enables the United Kin...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will.

Before you take this intervention, Sir Jeffrey, I remind you that you have now been speaking for ...

My right hon. Friend will know about the exchange that the Secretary of State and I had yesterday...

I welcome what the Secretary of State said yesterday: that we must not allow the threat of EU ret...

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State knows that I rarely rise to speak in debates that he ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that another great virtue of this framework agreement, which is m...

I agree wholeheartedly. My hon. Friend always speaks with great wisdom.

When I was Secretar...

I confess that when I read the Windsor framework I was surprised, and pleasantly so, because as t...

I think we must avoid the danger of hyperbole, and I hope I do not disappoint my right hon. and h...

In the very short time I have, I will make a number of brief points. We do not like the Stormont ...

I thank the hon. Member for giving way. I just want to say two things: first, the people we trust...

And, of course, the agreement that the right hon. Member did not support.

We will vote for ...

I am a passionate Brexiteer, and I still think that our future outside of the European Union is t...

Let us be clear what we are debating here today: we are debating a lock, or a brake, that is nece...

With 20 seconds, I call John Redwood.

2.20 pm

The Government should not put this measure to a vote now. This will not work. It cannot work as a...

Order.

2.21 pm

One and a half hours having elapsed since the commencement of proceedi...