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European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill

I am sure that the Minister in his excellent way will respond to these particular details. I am looking at this amendment, which says that we cannot start the process of leaving the European Union until we have,

“Her Majesty’s Government’s negotiating strategy for withdrawal on the economy, investment and regional funding of”,

all these regions. That is ridiculous—absurd. Perhaps the noble Lord put down the amendment just to have a debate and is not proposing to press the matter, but to say to the Government, “You cannot implement what the people voted for until you have done a set of calculations that are impossible to do until you start the negotiations”, looks to me like a circular argument and yet another device from those Benches to prevent us from getting on with what people voted for.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
779 c685 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
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