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European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. Let me very gently say to the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) and his hon. Friend the Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Angus Brendan MacNeil) that both of them are very senior figures in the land, as Chairs of important Select Committees of the House, and they should behave with the decorum that befits their high status.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady and others—indeed, Members on her party’s Front Bench—had the opportunity to table indicative votes. Did they do so? No. They tabled something that said, "Well, what’s the answer? Let’s have a few more votes in the future, possibly, maybe, if we think that it might be useful at some stage."
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Immigration
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): If the hon. Gentleman will wait, I shall come on to talk about the issue of the backstop. We retain absolutely our commitment to a way of ensuring that we deliver on the commitment to no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. However, the hon. Gentleman may have noticed that actually we lost a vote, and we have been listening to Members on both sides of the House. The hon. Gentleman and his right hon. and hon. Friends say to me that I must recognise that we lost a vote. Yes, that is why we are here, looking at what it will take to ensure that we get a deal through the House.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend will have seen that the amendment that I tabled goes solely to process, not to outcome. But is it not the case that the House has never had a proper opportunity to debate options, and to do it in a reasoned way? What the Prime Minister is asking the House to do again today is to suddenly adopt a measure that the Government have signed up to at the last moment and to say that that should be the route we should take. Surely that illustrates the precise problem that the House has had throughout. Let me make it clear to my right hon. Friend that the purpose of my amendment is to give the House the space in which to find where the majority lies, and I commend it to her.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): No, I am going to explain the position. That message has come from Conservative Back Benchers, Opposition Members and our confidence and supply partners in the DUP. That is why I believe it is in all our interests for the House to back the amendment tabled by my hon. Friends the Members for Altrincham and Sale West and for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison), my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Damian Green) and others.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend anticipates what I was going to say. We will be focusing on delivering specific changes that will address the concerns of the House, and I am looking at a range of ways to achieve that. As my right hon. Friend has just said, she and my hon. Friends the Members for Wycombe (Mr Baker), for North West Hampshire (Kit Malthouse), for North East Somerset (Mr Rees-Mogg) and others have worked to bring forward a serious proposal that we are engaging with sincerely and positively.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): Members across the House have put forward a number of proposals on how this issue can be addressed. They are not indulging in fantasies—they are coming forward with serious proposals, on which this Government will work with them.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): If the hon. Gentleman wants to look for different views about the issue, perhaps he can talk to some of his colleagues. He might try to get the Leader of the Opposition to focus on a detailed proposal for what the Labour party thinks.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, of course the House will have the right to decide whether it agrees with the agreement that emerges. However, I hope that, when we bring a revised agreement to the House—as I am sure that we will be able to—my hon. Friend will look at it carefully before he determines how to vote.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Mixed Topics
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I am conscious of the length of time I have been at the Dispatch Box. Hon. Members want to speak and I will now conclude. Since the draft withdrawal agreement was published, I have come to the House to discuss it more than half a dozen times. I have been on the Front Bench for many hours of debate, taking hundreds of questions and interventions from hon. Members, and I have been listening.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. The person who has the Floor chooses whether and, if so, when to give way. That is the situation. It is very clear, and it cannot be contradicted. That is all there is to it.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. The former Foreign Secretary does not seem to be very well versed in the traditions of the House of Commons and debate. [Interruption.] Order. I am telling the right hon. Gentleman what the position is, and he will learn from me. When he seeks to intervene, he waits to hear whether the person on his or her feet is giving way, and the Leader of the Opposition is not giving way. In that case, with the very greatest of respect, it is for the right hon. Gentleman to know his place, which is in his seat.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. Resume your seat, Mr Fabricant. I know you are trying to help the House and I appreciate that—your public spiritedness is well known throughout the House and across the nation—but the hon. Gentleman referred to a leaflet and the contents thereof. Whatever the merits or demerits of that argument, it is not a matter of order for the Chair. It is a matter of political debate, as your grinning countenance suggests you are well aware.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. Resume your seat. [Interruption.] With no disrespect to the hon. Lady, I am not interested in observations. [Interruption.] Order. I am not debating it. I am telling you what the situation is. [Interruption.] It is no good laughing, chuckling away as though it is a matter of great amusement. It is a matter of fact: points of order, yes; observations, no. [Interruption.] No, the hon. Lady has helpfully explained that she had an observation to make. We are very grateful.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Jacob William Rees-Mogg (Conservative, Centre-right): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. This is a genuine point of order. I wonder whether you could guide the House on how Members refuse interventions, because I think the reason there is so much noise is that it is not clear whether the right hon. Gentleman has heard the request for an intervention or not. Your guidance would be extraordinarily helpful.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I cannot claim to have known that, but I think now that the hon. Lady has issued what might be called a public information notice. We are aware of it, but it is a matter for the Leader of the Opposition to decide. I hope the hon. Lady is satisfied with her efforts.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. Many people have talked in recent times about the importance of respect in the Chamber. [Interruption.] No, no, no, I do not require any help from the Government Chief Whip. Let me gently say to him that he has a challenging task, which he discharges to the best of his capabilities, and the House and the nation are grateful to him. The idea that he needs to advise the Leader of the Opposition or the Speaker on how to discharge their responsibilities is, frankly, beyond credulity. He has got one job to do. People will make their assessment of whether and how well he does it. Don’t try doing somebody else’s job. With respect, sir, it is way beyond you.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): The answer is that there is no breach of rules whatsoever. The hon. Lady has made her own point, in her own way, and I acknowledge it. No breach of rules has taken place. Order has been maintained. That is clear to me and to the professional advisers to the Chair as well, and I think the hon. Lady knows it. However, she has made her own point, in her own inimitable way.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. I know that he is well-intentioned, but the short answer is no. The timescale for the debate has been set and agreed by the House, and the selection by the Chair has been appropriately made in accordance with the conventions of this House and without demur from colleagues, and it is best that we proceed.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Simon James Hoare (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to you, Mr Speaker. Earlier in this debate, you rightly referred to the expectations of this place of respect and politeness to colleagues. That is a perfectly sensible benchmark to set. In your judgment, Sir, and I seek your ruling on this, has the behaviour of the Leader of the Opposition to the hon. Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge (Angela Smith) lived up to your expectations of respect to colleagues?
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): The answer is very simple. Good order has been preserved; nothing disorderly has taken place. I do not want to be unkind to the hon. Gentleman because I know that he is trying to be an apprentice parliamentary expert, but I am afraid that he has quite a few steps on the ladder still to climb.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Kenneth Clarke (Conservative, Centre-right): Well, unless I take too long, I hope to touch on the arguments behind the right hon. Gentleman’s excellent amendment, because that is one of the things that we should do in one way or another over the next few weeks.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Oliver Letwin (Conservative, Centre-right): I think that my right hon. and learned Friend will therefore be joining me in the Lobby in support of what is known as the Cooper amendment. Does he agree that in changing Standing Orders, the House of Commons, if it has a majority to do so, is doing something that the House of Commons has done since Standing Orders were created, and did before the Government took control of the Order Paper in 1906?
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Mixed Topics
Kenneth Clarke (Conservative, Centre-right): Absolutely. We will not debate the constitutional history, but people are trying to invoke the strictest interpretation of Standing Orders going back to attempts in the late 19th century to stop the Irish nationalists filibustering, which brought the whole thing grinding to a halt. Now we are saying that as this Parliament has the temerity to have a range of views, some of which are not acceptable to the Government, Standing Orders should be invoked against us to discipline us. Anyway, I will not go back to that, but I agree with my right hon. Friend The other thing that I shall vote for is another thing that supports the Prime Minister’s stated ambition for the long-term future of the country: open borders and free trade between ourselves and our markets in the EU, as demanded by our business leaders, our trade union leaders, and, I think, most people who have the economic wellbeing of future generations at heart. I think the only known way in the world in which we can do that is to stay in a customs union, and also to have sufficient regulatory alignment to eliminate the need for border barriers. I do not mind if some of my right hon. and hon. Friends prefer to call the customs union a "customs arrangement" or if they care to call the single market "regulatory alignment". I do not feel any great distress at their use of gentler language to describe these things. Nevertheless, something very near to that is required to deliver our economic and political ambitions It is also the obvious and only way to protect the permanent open border in Ireland. We do not need to invent this ridiculous Irish backstop if the whole United Kingdom is going into a situation where it has an open border with the whole European Union in any event. The Irish backstop was only invented to appease those people who envisaged the rest of the British Isles suddenly deciding to leave with no deal before we had finished the negotiations in Europe. Well, let us forget that. Let us make it our aim—it will not be easy but it is perfectly possible—to negotiate, probably successfully, with the other 27 an open trading economic and investment relationship through the single market and the customs union.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. That is extraordinary behaviour from the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Dr Whitford), who is an illustrious doctor. She is ranting from a sedentary position; I cannot believe that she rants in that way in the middle of her surgeries. It is unbecoming of somebody of her status and high esteem in the House of Commons.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Anna Mary Soubry (Conservative, Centre-right): May I gently say to the right hon. Gentleman that we will soon have only three hours of debate left? There are seven amendments, and many Back Benchers—I am not one of them—wish to speak. I look forward to joining him in the Lobbies this evening on many of these amendments. Many of us are grateful for his support.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Mixed Topics
David Thomas Charles Davies (Conservative, Centre-right): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. On a point of clarification, the right hon. Gentleman just suggested there was a relationship with Germany going back to the 1200s, but Germany did not exist in the 1200s.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his historical exegesis, from which the leader of the Scottish National party can choose to think he can either benefit or not benefit. It is a matter for him, not the Chair.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Oliver Letwin (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that if we are to succeed in using indicative votes as a process for getting to resolution, hon. Members on both sides of the House and from all parts of the House will have to be willing to sacrifice their first preference and ask instead the question, "What can I tolerate?"
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Graham Stuart Brady (Conservative, Centre-right): I will come on to those matters. I have very little time, but I assure the hon. Gentleman that that is my intention in speaking in this debate First, however, I wish to turn to the amendments that deal with procedure. I entirely accept what my right hon. and learned Friend the Father of the House said: it is the right of this House to change procedure. However, I would make a slightly different point, which is that I think it is unwise to change procedure without forethought. It is unwise to change procedure on the hoof or to do it for a particular purpose.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Graham Stuart Brady (Conservative, Centre-right): I would very much like to give way to the hon. Lady, but I have used up my two allowed interventions We can send the Prime Minister back in a strengthened position, able to say that she has a real mandate from this House, and to ask for real change.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Mixed Topics
Mark Julian Francis Pawsey (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady is a very effective Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee. She heard, as I did, businesses argue for no deal, but in the main businesses say they recognise that the Prime Minister’s deal, while having many faults, is better than the continued uncertainty. Why is the hon. Lady not able to accept that contention from the businesses we have heard? Why does she think that her method of continuing the process is better than accepting what we heard businesses say?
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. After the next speaker, the time limit will have to be reduced to three minutes, because everybody has been taking interventions, which is very consistent with the rules of debate but, obviously, truncates the opportunities of other right hon. and hon. Members.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Oh! Well, I would have called a particular hon. Gentleman who seems to have beetled out of the Chamber. That is most unfortunate. I hope the fellow is not indisposed. But Mr Charles Walker is here, and that is important.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Stephen Paul Barclay (Conservative, Centre-right): If the hon. Lady had read the political declaration, she would know that the alternative arrangements are referred to in paragraph 19, but what she has drawn attention to is the stark difference between Labour and the Conservatives The amendment tabled by the Leader of the Opposition has barely been referred to today. Members on his own side did not even want to mention it as they referred to amendments tabled by Back Benchers. They did not seem to want to engage with it. That is because the Leader of the Opposition starts from a position of calling for unity, but cannot adopt the unified position of accepting an amendment from his own Back-Bench colleagues.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
Stephen Paul Barclay (Conservative, Centre-right): The reason we are willing to take interventions and debate is that we have a clear position from the Prime Minister, whereas the position of the Leader of the Opposition is confused. Is he for a second referendum, like the shadow Business Secretary, or does he support the position of the shadow Education Secretary who thinks a second referendum would be a betrayal? Does he or does he not support the position of Len McCluskey, who is willing to engage with the Prime Minister?
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I will take the right hon. Gentleman’s question as a rhetorical question, rather than a substantive one. He knows that Parliament is here to debate and to vote, and he is well familiar—[Interruption.] Order. I am addressing the right hon. Gentleman; perhaps he would do me the courtesy of listening to me. He has the mechanisms of the House available to him.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Again, if I may very politely say so, I think the hon. Lady’s point of order, although it contains what is ostensibly an inquiry, is one in which she is making her point rather than seeking anything from me. The short answer to her is that, as I said a moment ago, there will be further debate. Members must speak and vote as they think fit. All these matters will be thoroughly aired in the days and weeks to come, and I am sure we all look forward to that—the hon. Lady from her vantage point and I from mine.
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman may wish to offer the views that he has just expressed to the news outlets that operate in Na h-Eileanan an Iar, and I rather suspect that that is what he will want to do. Local newspapers and radio stations will doubtless be very interested in the views that he wishes to express, but they are not matters of which I can treat now. The House has decided what it has decided—[Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman is saying that these matters are in contradiction of each other or have to be weighed against each other, but of course it is not a matter for the Chair to offer an exegesis to the House on the way in which it has voted. Members will make their own assessment. We know what statute says and we know what expressions of opinion have been recorded by the House today. The hon. Gentleman, although his brow is furrowed, is a perspicacious fellow, and I am sure he will get his head around these matters in the hours, days and weeks to come. We look forward to that with eager anticipation.
Vagrancy Act — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Housing
Tracey Elizabeth Anne Crouch (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady is quite right to refer to William Wilberforce. He acknowledged at the time that the Act did nothing to take into account personal situations and the reasons behind homelessness. As she said, his words ring true two centuries later. Does she agree with me, and I think with the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), that in a modern society it is far more effective and compassionate to use time and resources to help those who desperately need that support, rather than relying on this blunt piece of legislation on the statute book, which, as Wilberforce pointed out, does nothing to help those living on the streets and simply criminalises the vulnerable?
Vagrancy Act — House of Commons, 2019-01-29
Topic: Mixed Topics
James Jacob Gilchrist Berry (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady is doing an excellent job. I ask this so that I can respond to the debate properly. She made the point that criminalising people who are homeless or begging damages the ability to help them. She went on to say that other Acts may also criminalise them and that they should or could be used instead of the Vagrancy Act. Is there a contradiction in that statement? Would she like to clarify that, just to enable me to respond more fully?