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EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Mixed Topics
Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles (Conservative, Centre-right): I join my hon. Friend the Member for Aberavon (Stephen Kinnock) in proposing motion (D). I, too, want to make the case for compromise, not as something cowardly but as something courageous. In a divided country and a divided Parliament, finding and sustaining a compromise that most people can support is a noble endeavour. After years of paralysing conflict, we have a moral duty to open our minds this afternoon and reach for a compromise that will allow us to put the interminable Brexit row behind us The great strength of the common market 2.0 proposal, relative to all other Brexit compromises, is that it offers something important and valuable to everyone and every party in this House. For Labour Members, it offers the strong position in the single market that, as Frances O’Grady has affirmed, is vital for workers’ rights. For SNP Members, common market 2.0 preserves the principle of free movement of labour, which they tell me is essential to Scotland’s future economic prosperity and social cohesion. For those in other parts of the UK, worried about the possibility of another massive influx of European migrants such as the one we experienced after Poland and Hungary joined the EU in 2004, it offers an emergency brake, which could be deployed as a temporary safeguard in the regions affected For my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Conservative Benches, common market 2.0 offers the prospect of being able to benefit from the free trade agreements struck by the European Free Trade Association, or to do our own trade deals once alternative arrangements to maintain no hard border on the island of Ireland have been agreed with the EU.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Mixed Topics
Stephen Charles Brine (Conservative, Centre-right): My rule today is to support only suggestions that are realistic and deliverable, and I think that what my hon. Friend is presenting, and what I have read about it, ticks both boxes. Will he confirm that common market 2.0 would not require Northern Ireland to accept different rules from the rest of the UK? That is the stumbling block that has held us in this purgatory for so long.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Mixed Topics
Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles (Conservative, Centre-right): That gives me more pleasure than you could believe possible. For all of us in this House who care deeply about the security of our fellow citizens, but perhaps in particular for my good friend the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper), common market 2.0 would offer unfettered access to the databases and information-sharing programmes of the EU. That is only available to countries that are members of the EU or of EFTA.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Mixed Topics
Kenneth Clarke (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sorry, but I cannot give way. I would like to—I have been collaborating with the hon. Gentleman—but I must take notice of time Under such a compromise, we would continue to enjoy the economic advantages of being in the biggest and most prosperous international free trade area in the world and begin to reconcile the 52% with the 48%. Most sensible members of the public, however passionate their views, be they remain or leave, could see the sense in coming together around such a compromise. It was the main Eurosceptic demand 20 years ago: leave the EU but not the common market. If we solved that, we could begin to repair the dreadful political mood in the country I will vote for revoke whenever it appears, because that is my personal preference, but that is self-indulgence, and I will support—[Laughter.] If we get a majority, I will be delighted.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. Before I call the next speaker, I can tell the House that no lead sponsors have informed me—and I indicated that they needed to do so before 4 pm—that they do not wish a recorded vote to take place on their motion. I can therefore confirm that the motions on which Members will be able to vote are as previously announced, namely (B) for Baron, (D) in the name of Nick Boles, (H) in the name of George Eustice, (J) in the name of Mr Kenneth Clarke, (K) in the name of the Leader of the Opposition, (L) in the name of Joanna Cherry, (M) in the name of Margaret Beckett, and (O) in the name of Mr Marcus Fysh.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Mixed Topics
Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles (Conservative, Centre-right): I will be brief. My right hon. Friend is correct to say that this is a legally disputed point. There are lawyers who agree with him, but I can cite Sir Alan Dashwood QC, the leading silk on EU law, and George Peretz QC, the leading silk on EFTA law, who both disagree with him.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Immigration
Stephen Paul Barclay (Conservative, Centre-right): As a former respected Minister, my hon. Friend will know that I am stating the clear position of the Government Law Officers. The same point also relates to the meat of motion (H), because line 5 states that we need to give notice to leave the EEA, which is not the case The second issue with motion (D) is that paragraph (1)(e) states that freedom of movement can be restricted to those "genuinely seeking work" or those with "sufficient resources". Again, that is just incorrect. The existing position as a member of the EU28 is that controls can be put in place, but that has not happened because of how the UK operates. We do not have a registration or ID system or an insurance-based health system, so there are reasons why such controls are not used. With respect, the proposal is a fig leaf to disguise the fact that his solution requires the continuation of freedom of movement.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I have now to announce the results of the deferred Divisions held earlier today. I shall do so with the greatest possible dispatch The Question relating to relationships and sex education requires a majority of Members of the House and a majority of Members representing constituencies in England if it is to be agreed to. The totals for Members of the House were as follows: the Ayes were 538 and the Noes were 21. The totals for Members representing constituencies in England were as follows: the Ayes were 482 and the Noes were 14, so the Ayes have it In respect of the Question relating to animal welfare, the Ayes were 322 and the Noes were 15, so the Ayes have it. In respect of the Question relating to rural development, the Ayes were 316 and the Noes were 239, so the Ayes have it. In respect of the Question relating to rural development, with, in brackets—I merely remind the House of what it knows itself—the words "Rules and Decisions", the Ayes were 316 and the Noes were 240, so the Ayes have it.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Mixed Topics
Robert Henry Halfon (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend reminds me that Margaret Thatcher said in her 2003 book how supportive she was of EFTA: "These countries now enjoy free trade with the European Union…They also enjoy the unhindered access guaranteed by the operation of the European Single Market. But they remain outside the customs union, the CAP, the CFP, the common foreign and security policy and the rest of the legal/bureaucratic tangle of EU institutions." If it is good enough for the right hon. Lady, it is good enough for me In joining EFTA, we do take back control. It is a workers’ Brexit because we keep workers’ rights and protections, such as annual leave, equal pay and maternity leave. It is a take-back-control Brexit because we are out of the political union of the EU, and we safeguard jobs and our economy. Above all, it is a uniting Brexit. It brings together remainers and leavers and keep us in an alliance of democracies.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. After the House has heard from the hon. Member for Sedgefield (Phil Wilson), I am afraid that it will be necessary to reduce the time limit on Back-Bench speeches to three minutes, in an attempt to accommodate as many colleagues as possible.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
Chris Ian Brian Mynott Philp (Conservative, Centre-right): It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry), although I was disappointed that she did not mention how many times she thought the electorate could change their mind—does she think it should be two, three or four times?
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Civil Rights
David Arthur Stephen Tredinnick (Conservative, Centre-right): Does my hon. Friend share my concern about motion (M) on a second referendum? What would he do in my constituency, which voted out by 60% to 40%? Does he understand my constituents’ concern that a second referendum would be the end of democracy?
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I was looking for a particular Member, but he beetled out of the Chamber at an inopportune moment. If he had been in the Chamber at an opportune moment, I might have invited him to address the House, but he has missed his opportunity In accordance with the Order of the House of today, we will shortly proceed to vote on the motions I have selected. Voting forms are available from the Vote Office and in the Division Lobbies. The forms list the title and letter of the selected motions. The text of the motions is on the Order Paper. As I indicated at the outset, Members with surnames from A to K should hand in their forms in the Aye Lobby at the relevant desk for their surname, and Members with surnames from L to Z should hand in their forms in the No Lobby at the relevant desk. The Division bells will be rung two minutes before the House resumes. The voting period will begin at 7 o’clock and last for 30 minutes. I suspend the House accordingly for that period.
EU Exit Day Amendment — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
Robin Caspar Walker (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend makes an important point, but there would be a profound effect as a result of the rejection of this SI, and I shall come to that later in my speech. It is important to state that, were we to reject this SI, it would leave the UK statute book in a mess, so I do not think that is a good course of action.
EU Exit Day Amendment — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
Robin Caspar Walker (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes an important point on which many of us could agree—that this process reflects some of the issues that caused people to vote in the way that they did. However, the House voted for an extension and it was in respecting the vote of this House that the Government sought to negotiate one I am acutely aware of the huge amount of work undertaken by Members across this House to scrutinise—
EU Exit Day Amendment — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
Christopher Robert Chope (Conservative, Centre-right): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. The Minister made light of my intervention, in which I expressly drew the attention of the House to what we had been told on Friday during an urgent question by a Minister of the Crown from his Department. If what was said then is wrong, when are we going to get an official correction and apology from the Government, because those of us who were in the House on Friday were certainly gravely misled by what was said?
EU Exit Day Amendment — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his point of order. Obviously I well remember the exchanges, and I am aware of the particular interaction to which he is referring. The normal principle applies: every Member is responsible for the veracity of what he or she says in this Chamber. If a Member inadvertently errs, it is incumbent upon that Member to correct the record. The Minister, perfectly reasonably, said that he had not seen what was said. However, it is not beyond the wit and sagacity of the hon. Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) to arrange for a copy of the extract from the Official Report to wing its way to the Dispatch Box during the course of this consideration, and the Minister might then be in a position further to respond to him.
EU Exit Day Amendment — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I simply say to the hon. Lady that it is not for me to offer an exegesis of what individuals might think about our constitutional arrangements, including the use or otherwise of the royal prerogative, but she has made her own point in her own way, with some panache, and it will be studied in the record.
EU Exit Day Amendment — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
Peter William Bone (Conservative, Centre-right): The Act refers to a date. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it would therefore be more logical for this statutory instrument to state 12 April, and if that date needs to be changed, it should be changed subsequently? I do not understand how we can have two dates in the statutory instrument.
EU Exit Day Amendment — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): But I think the House will be relieved to know that it is to be spared a dilation on the matter of Lord Pannick’s involvement in the Rees-Mogg case—of which sparing I think I can be comfortably reassured by the hon. Gentleman.
EU Exit Day Amendment — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I call Sir Bernard—oh, I do beg the pardon of the hon. Member for Wallasey (Ms Eagle): I call Angela Eagle, and then other colleagues. I remind the House that there are fewer than 25 minutes to go.
EU Exit Day Amendment — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Mixed Topics
Bernard Christison Jenkin (Conservative, Centre-right): I am going to press on This House has now embarked upon an unprincipled constitutional experiment. The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, which I chair, recently heard from a retired Lord Chief Justice that nothing like this experiment has occurred since the recasting of the role of Parliament in 1688, which shows just how radical it is. I recognise the sincerity of many right hon. and hon. Members involved in the experiment, but they have resorted to the most questionable constitutional methods, which leave no Government or anyone else accountable for what is being decided. Who will the voters now hold to account for the outcome of the Brexit question Moreover, the process has been supported by those either embarking upon embellishing the discredited withdrawal agreement with ever greater restrictions on our right of national democratic self-determination or seeking to disrupt Brexit or stop it altogether in defiance of the manifesto promises upon which most of us were elected. I therefore regret to conclude on these matters, including these regulations, that this House is left with questionable democratic legitimacy.
EU Exit Day Amendment — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
Edward Vaizey (Conservative, Centre-right): Everyone on the Government Back Benches has spoken against this statutory instrument; I just have time to say that I fully support it. I cede my place to my hon. Friend the Member for South Norfolk (Mr Bacon).
EU Exit Day Amendment — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
Richard Michael Bacon (Conservative, Centre-right): This Government have had half the time it took to fight the second world war, two thirds of the time it took to fight the first world war, and the entire length of the Kennedy Administration, during which time the groundwork was laid for a successful moonshot. The idea that we need more time is nonsense. The Government have had plenty of time, they have not used it well enough, and we should just leave.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
Oliver Letwin (Conservative, Centre-right): It is, of course, a very great disappointment that the House has not chosen to find a majority for any proposition. However, those of us who put this proposal forward as a way of proceeding predicted that we would not this evening reach a majority, and indeed, for that very reason, put forward a business of the House motion designed to allow the House to reconsider these matters on Monday—[Interruption.]
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. Perhaps colleagues would do the right hon. Gentleman the courtesy—[Interruption.] Yes, I say to the right hon. Member for Derbyshire Dales (Sir Patrick McLoughlin) that I am not asking him; I am telling him that the right hon. Gentleman will be done the courtesy of being heard. That is the beginning and the end of the matter.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
Oliver Letwin (Conservative, Centre-right): Thank you, Mr Speaker. If on Monday the House can reach a majority view, it would be in the interests of our constituents and the country, but I personally continue to harbour the hope that my right hon. and hon. colleagues will see fit to vote in favour of a Government motion between now and close of play on Friday, which would obviate the necessity for a further set of votes on Monday.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): The particular process set in train as a consequence of the business of the House motion is a discrete process. It is the first time it has been conducted, it was approved by the House and therefore my understanding—[Interruption.] No, no, I am not debating the issue with the right hon. Gentleman. He has more or less courteously raised the point of order, and I am responding to it. I am not going to conduct a debate with him. My understanding of the situation does not entirely cohere with his, and I have explained that the motion passed by the House expressed support for a two-stage process. I will for the time being leave it there. I am extraordinarily grateful to him.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I note what the right hon. Lady has said. As a matter of fact, the Business of the House motion having been passed, the process is established, and—I say this for the benefit of colleagues, but also for the benefit of those attending our proceedings who are not Members of the House—the process is that a second day, Monday, has been provided for. I am not investing that point with any spin, one way or the other; it is not for the Chair to do that. I am simply reporting the factual position to the House. That is the reality of the matter. [Interruption.] It is no good somebody saying "Rubbish." That is the reality of the matter, because it is that for which the House of Commons voted.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
Mark Gino Francois (Conservative, Centre-right): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. After many hours of debate and an extremely complex procedure, the House of Commons has decided sweet Felicity Arkwright. I think the public will look in on these proceedings in utter amazement; they will be completely bemused by what has gone on. This attempt to seize the Order Paper has failed. The second referendum has been defeated. The revocation of article 50 was smashed. And surely the last thing we want to do, Mr Speaker, in the eyes of the public, is on Monday to go through this farce all over again.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, the right hon. Gentleman has and I have, but others have not. He and I have known each other—[Interruption.] Order. I say in a very good-natured spirit to the right hon. Gentleman that he and I have known each other for 35 and a half years, and knowing him as well as I do, I know that he is more interested in what he has to say to me than in anything I have to say to him, but the simple fact of the matter is that a process has been decided upon. It may well be that it does not suit the palate of the right hon. Gentleman; we will have to see what is said tomorrow and by other colleagues, but I repeat that I do not think he really wants much of a response from me. I respect the right hon. Gentleman greatly, as he knows; I have heard what he has said and the House has heard what he said, and I now want to hear what—
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. Wait a moment; patience. I do not mean any unkindness to hon. Members, but I think at this point I will hear from a former Leader of the House of enormous experience, and who had a motion before us today: Dame Margaret Beckett.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Mixed Topics
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes. It is not for the Chair to adjudicate on the merits of the arguments, and I have not sought to do so. What I did seek to do, which I thought it was proper for the Speaker to do, was facilitate the House by selecting a wide range of motions expressing different points of view and allowing those different, and in some cases contrasting, propositions to be tested. I would just very gently make the observation, again with a view to the intelligibility of our proceedings to a wider audience, that these matters have been debated over a lengthy period. Indeed, since the publication of the withdrawal agreement a little over four months ago I have chaired every single debate—and every minute of every single debate and, I think, exchange—in the Chamber on the matter. It is simply a statement of fact to say that in that period of four months and a bit, the House has not reached a conclusion. So if the right hon. Lady is asking me whether I am utterly astonished that today no agreement has been reached, I confess that I am not utterly astonished that after one day’s debate no agreement has been reached, but that is the factual position.
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): I know that the right hon. Gentleman attaches very considerable importance to his next intervention, and I look forward to it with bated breath, beads of sweat upon my brow and eager anticipation, but not before I have heard from the right hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis).
EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) — House of Commons, 2019-03-27
Topic: Other
Julian Murray Lewis (Conservative, Centre-right): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Is there any way within the rules of order that I can point out to what might be a bemused wider world that Members were not having to choose between these eight different options, that they were able to vote for or against each and every one of them, and that they voted against all of them? If I were an unofficial Back-Bench Prime Minister, I would resign at this point, not seek to repeat such an exercise in abject failure.