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Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Patrick Bosco McFadden (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister has come to the House to talk to us about honesty on the day when she is trying to pull a vote which she said would not be pulled in order to try to change a deal which she said could not be changed. Is it not time to be honest about the commitments that this country has made to no hard border, to the Good Friday agreement and to not doing huge damage to our economy? She can talk to the European Union about the backstop all day, but any deal that respects those commitments will require us to sign up to a set of common European rules over which we will no longer have any say by dint of the fact of Brexit. Is it not time to be honest both with her Back Benchers and the public about this, instead of trying to square unsquarable circles or even worse, hide the facts of this fundamental choice until after we are out?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: Foreign Trade
Seema Malhotra-Saluja (Labour, Centre-left): Could the Prime Minister confirm reports that more than £100,000 has been shelled out by the Government on Facebook ads in the last week promoting a deal that even she is not now happy with? Is this not now an even bigger farce, as, with uncertainty around UK business access to EU trade arrangements and many other issues, she seeks to sideline Parliament once again and make social media companies richer, while the country pays the price?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Mary Helen Creagh (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister’s negotiating strategy seems to be "Fail again. Fail better." It is not going to revive her zombie Brexit deal. Whenever she decides to bring it back to the House—on Christmas eve, Christmas day or Boxing day—it will be voted down. She talks of the will of the people, but the will of the people cannot be undermined by a vote of the people. Is that not what she must now do?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Louise Joyce Ellman (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister told the House this afternoon that this is "the very best deal that is actually negotiable with the EU", yet she now tells us she plans to go back to Brussels to plead with the EU to help her and get her out of this hole. This is not a Government in control; surely we should put this issue back to the people to ask if they really want to continue with this perilous journey that will make the UK poorer.
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Chuka Harrison Umunna (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister says that a people’s vote would not reflect the will of the people and that it would be divisive, but we do not know what the will of the people is in 2018 and we are already a divided country. Nothing would divide us more or fuel the far right more than a deteriorating economy. Is it not the case that, notwithstanding any tweak that she makes to her backstop, her withdrawal agreement will still leave us poorer, relative to the deal that we have now?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Helen Catherine Goodman (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister said in her statement, and I agree with her, that the majority of people in this House do not want no deal. She also knows that the ERG is a small minority in this House. Rather than writing a side letter, which will not satisfy the ERG, why does she not do what my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition said and agree the next set of negotiating objectives across the House?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Peter John Kyle (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister started this process by going to the Supreme Court to stop the House of Commons having a say in starting the Brexit process. We are only having a vote tomorrow—or were only having a vote tomorrow, because she was defeated last year on the amendment to the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill. Is it not true that she has barefaced cheek to come before the House and lecture us about our duty to this House and our Parliament? Is not it true that no Prime Minister is better than a bad Prime Minister?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Luciana Clare Goldsmith (Berger) (Labour, Centre-left): I have listened very closely to the Prime Minister’s responses so far this afternoon. Does she truly believe that the people who voted to leave two and a half years ago did so in order to make our country poorer? Did they want Brexit at any cost? If she is so sure that the majority of our country want this actual deal, rather than the false promises they were mis-sold, why does she not do the most democratic thing and take her deal back to the country, giving it the final say?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Michael John Gapes (Labour, Centre-left): The European Commission has made it absolutely clear that it is not going to reopen the 585-page withdrawal agreement. If the Prime Minister was able to get an aspirational addendum to the political declaration—a piece of paper that she could wave when she came back—would that mean we would definitely have a vote on Monday or Tuesday next week?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: Macroeconomics
Owen Smith (Labour, Centre-left): Since the Prime Minister has been on her feet this afternoon, the pound has fallen to its lowest level since early 2017. The FTSE 250 has fallen to its lowest level for two years, as a direct consequence of the uncertainty caused by this failed brinksmanship. Is it not grossly irresponsible of the Prime Minister to tell the country that we do not know when we will have a vote on this and that this uncertainty may continue indefinitely?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Wesley Paul William Streeting (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister talks about trust, faith in politics and the importance of honouring the 2016 vote, but what does she think it will do to trust in politics when those voters realise that the deal she has negotiated bears so little resemblance to what they voted for? What will it do when people realise that we will be subjected to EU rules but with no say over them? What will it do when people realise that initially we cannot trade with the rest of the world, and that even when we can it will not substitute for the trade that she has sacrificed around the negotiating table? Worst of all, what will it do to trust in politics when people are feeling the pain and are subjected to what the Prime Minister has negotiated, but were given no say over it whatsoever? If she believes that her deal is in the national interest and commands public support, why will she not ask the people?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Lilian Rachel Greenwood (Labour, Centre-left): This morning, a prominent Nottingham business warned me that a no-deal Brexit could put it out of business. This afternoon, the Prime Minister raised the threat of an accidental no deal. It is crystal clear that her deal cannot command a majority in this House, whenever we vote on it. Is not her time-wasting delay simply reckless?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Kevin Denis Brennan (Labour, Centre-left): Will the Prime Minister tell the House straight whether this is true: when she comes back with her assurances, it will still be the case that not a single word in the 585 page withdrawal agreement will have been changed. Is that correct?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
John Eugene Joseph Dromey (Labour, Centre-left): The Government’s mishandling of the negotiations has thrust the country into chaos, with growing uncertainty and deep concern in our automotive sector, including the Jaguar plant in my constituency. We are but three months away from the cliff. Whatever the ultimate way forward agreed by this House is in the next stages, will the Prime Minister today rule out any question of a no-deal Brexit? The jobs of tens of thousands of workers depend on it.
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Roberta Carol Blackman-Woods (Labour, Centre-left): I am one of the few people in this House brought up in Northern Ireland during the years of conflict, and I do not ever want to see a return to that time. So how is the Prime Minister going to ensure no hard border in Ireland now or in a few years’ time and absolutely no undermining of the Good Friday agreement that brought such welcome peace? Surely, this negotiation should not be about the Prime Minister trying to placate enough people on her own side to heave this bad deal over the line: it should be about the long-term peace and prosperity of Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, too.
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Christian John Patrick Matheson (Labour, Centre-left): The tactic employed by the Prime Minister of trying to foment division between this House and the country outside is to be deeply regretted and will only add to the problems that she described in her statement. Is the deal that is currently on the table now dead, since she is trying to renegotiate something that was previously unnegotiable?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Clive Stanley Efford (Labour, Centre-left): The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is quoted today as saying: "We have already offered a lot of concessions...We ended up with the backstop because of all the red lines the UK laid down" EU leaders know that we have the backstop designed by the Prime Minister. Exactly what is she going to renegotiate?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Andrew Francis Slaughter (Labour, Centre-left): Dragging the decision on the Prime Minister’s deal into the new year for what looks like tactical advantage is unfair on everyone, but it is particularly unfair on businesses trying to plan for their future and for EU citizens who want to know their rights. Will she at least promise to bring the vote before the Christmas recess?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Kerry Gillian McCarthy (Labour, Centre-left): I have had hundreds of constituents emailing me to express their unhappiness with the Prime Minister’s deal, and they are not troubled by the backstop; they are worried about their jobs, the economy, whether they will be able to get their hands on life-saving medicines and whether food prices will go through the roof. It is self-indulgent in the extreme for us to put off this decision day after day, while the Prime Minister tries to save her own skin. She will not be able to come back with a deal which satisfies me that my constituents will not be worse off. Can she just get on with it?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Alexander James Jorden Norris (Labour, Centre-left): It was clear after the Chequers agreement was announced that there was not a majority in Parliament for it. It has been clear since the withdrawal agreement announcement was made that there is not a majority in Parliament for it. It has been clear after three days of debate that there is not a majority in Parliament for the Prime Minister’s plan. In that time, we have wasted months. Now the Prime Minister proposes to waste further weeks. Is the Prime Minister’s new strategy to run the clock down to the very last minute to give us a false choice between her deal and the catastrophe of no deal?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: Government Operations
Rupa Asha Huq (Labour, Centre-left): Nine times, the Prime Minister assured us that there would be no early general election, and still it happened. As recently as this morning her hapless, ever-changing band of Ministers were out on the airwaves assuring us that there would be a meaningful vote tomorrow before this latest twist—a sort of premature parliamentary ejaculation—that has put the lie to the claim that she sticks to her guns. When she will not even tell us when the vote is deferred to and as it appears the lady is for turning, how can we or anyone trust anything she says again?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: Environment
Anna Rhiannon McMorrin (Labour, Centre-left): World leaders are gathering in Katowice in Poland this week to agree action on climate change, the single biggest issue facing us in the world today. Instead, here we are embroiled in a massive act of self-harm, with us unable to move forward, the pound at its lowest point in 18 months and locked in a stalemate. Without any majority in Parliament for a deal, please put this back to the people—not for the second time, but for the first time on this deal.
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Nicholas Dakin (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister admits that if she put the deal to this House tomorrow, it would be rejected, in her words, by "a significant margin", so why is she behaving like the shopkeeper in the dead parrot sketch and insisting that this dead deal is not yet deceased?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Sharon Hodgson (Labour, Centre-left): Even by this Government’s standards, the events of today have been extraordinary. My constituents will be looking on today in horror at what the Prime Minister is doing. There are just 109 days to go until we are due to leave the EU and the Prime Minister does not have the confidence to put her own deal to a vote of this House. Every day this chaos continues, it damages the country. As the Prime Minister does not command a majority in this House any longer, will she step aside?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Katherine Anne Green (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister said that it was disquiet about the backstop in this House that is leading her to return to the European Union, but many of the 164 speeches that we have heard so far in the debate indicate that it is not just the backstop that is of concern, and my constituents have many other concerns about the deal that is on the table. Will the Prime Minister tell us when she is going to put this intrinsically unsatisfactory deal before this House so that we can vote on it?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Elizabeth Anne McInnes (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister has rather given the game away with her statement today, for as long as we fail to agree a deal, the risk of an accidental no deal increases. It would be monumental folly for any Government accidentally to stumble into no deal. We have had three days of debate. Let us have the next two, and let us have a vote on her deal.
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Paul John Sweeney (Labour, Centre-left): Will the Prime Minister accept that the fundamental premise of this deal is not going to change and that no amount of sugar-coating is going to build a majority in this House for a fundamentally dead deal? Will she face up to the reality of democracy, face the House of Commons, put it to a vote and allow Parliament to decide what happens next, instead of holding us all hostage to her own misfortune?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Janet Jessica Daby (Labour, Centre-left): It is good to hear that the Prime Minister is listening. If she is indeed listening, what would she say to my constituent who voted leave, but who said that he feels he was miserably misled and misinformed by the leave campaign and has since said, like many others, that he would like the opportunity to make an informed decision through a people’s vote?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Christopher Philip James Elmore (Labour, Centre-left): The only thing that the Prime Minister has been consistent about in recent months is that her deal is the only deal on the table, so the reality is that tweaking bits and pieces will change nothing, as has been confirmed by the Taoiseach for a start. In that vein, will the Prime Minister confirm that her decision to delay tomorrow’s vote does not mean that the requirement under the EU withdrawal Act for the Government to make a statement by 21 January if this House has not approved a deal has changed?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Marie Elizabeth Rimmer (Labour, Centre-left): The referendum was honoured when this House voted article 50 through. The deal on offer and no deal are seriously detrimental to this country, with the most vulnerable set to be the worst hit again. Truth and honesty are desperately needed in this country now; the people are entitled to it. It takes a brave person to be a true leader. Will the Prime Minister rise to the challenge, tell the House and the public that this deal and no deal are seriously detrimental, and get out to the people? We cannot lead them over a cliff like lemmings.
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Deborah Angela Elspeth Marie Abrahams (Labour, Centre-left): I have no confidence whatsoever in the Prime Minister renegotiating or amending the deal, the backstop or anything else. Given that she has refused to date to say when we may have a vote on the amended deal, will she at least stop the clock on the article 50 process? Or is this really a threat, as it seems to have been from the response to many of my colleagues, of her deal or no deal?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Ruth Stephanie Nicole George (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister says that she wants certainty and protection for jobs and prosperity, but seeing as she is about to try to ditch the only legally binding part of the future relationship and her party is seeking to ditch her and take us into a hard Brexit, what guarantee does her deal give to businesses and people in my constituency of the jobs and prosperity that they want?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Martin David Whitfield (Labour, Centre-left): Donald Tusk has just tweeted that he "will not renegotiate" anything, "including the backstop", but will discuss how the UK can facilitate ratification. Given that a no deal would be a disaster and the article 50 ruling this morning stated that we could revoke it, is it not in the Government’s power, if we reach a point where we risk no deal, to revoke article 50?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Hugh Lawrence Gaffney (Labour, Centre-left): On Postal Workers Day, I thank all MPs for the extra Brexit mail Prime Minister, earlier you said: "On the morning after the referendum two and a half years ago, I knew that we had witnessed a defining moment for our democracy." Prime Minister, this is a defining moment in our democracy. Your deal has failed, so will you call a general election or will you resign, just like David?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Justin Piers Richard Madders (Labour, Centre-left): Many constituents have contacted me about the withdrawal agreement. I had hoped to speak in the debate later to put forward their views, as well as my own. The Prime Minister said earlier that she wanted to take Members’ concerns back to the EU. How can she do that if she shuts down the debate tonight—or do my constituents’ views not count?
Exiting the European Union — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Matthew Raymond Western (Labour, Centre-left): The Prime Minister said in her statement: "Those Members who continue to disagree need to shoulder the responsibility of advocating an alternative solution that can be delivered" I came here today to make a speech in the debate to advocate an alternative position and to vote tomorrow. The Prime Minister is clearly running down the clock, playing a game of brinkmanship that is dangerous for our businesses, such as Jaguar Land Rover. Does not she accept that, by denying Parliament a vote tomorrow, she is preventing any alternative solution to be proposed unless article 50 is extended?
EU Exit: Article 50 — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Jenny Chapman (Labour, Centre-left): I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement Yesterday, Andrew Marr asked the Secretary of State whether the meaningful vote was going to be delayed, and the Secretary of State said: "The vote is on Tuesday. That is what we’re focused on." I know he is the new boy on the block and is very keen to impress his new boss but, like his two predecessors, I fear he has been left out of the loop. Seeing as we all have a bit more time this evening and tomorrow, can I ask when he learned that the meaningful vote would not take place tomorrow It has been reported that the requirement for the Government to make a statement to this House on no deal by 21 January will no longer apply following the Prime Minister’s decision to defer the vote. Can the Secretary of State clarify whether this is or is not the case? If he has not already done so, will he seek legal advice on this matter and make an urgent statement to the House tomorrow? The Government’s incompetence is not an excuse to threaten this country with no deal. Turning to the substance of the Secretary of State’s statement, this is an important and clear judgment from the European Court of Justice and it makes three points. First, that article 50 can be unilaterally and unconditionally revoked. Secondly, that doing so would mean the terms of our European Union membership are unchanged. Thirdly, that revocation could bring the withdrawal procedure to an end. We welcome the clarity this ruling has brought The Government sought to block the case from even being heard by the European Court. Can the Secretary of State confirm how much taxpayers’ money was spent on trying to obstruct this predictable decision? Can he also make it clear that, if article 50 is extended due to the Government’s failure to negotiate a deal by the end of March, the Court ruling states that the UK could still unilaterally revoke article 50 We have always been clear that the revocability of article 50 is a political matter, not a legal one. Today’s ruling underlines that. This country is yearning for political leadership from Ministers. Is it not the case that a Government cease to function when they are too scared to put votes to this House? This is a Government in name only.
EU Exit: Article 50 — House of Commons, 2018-12-10
Topic: International Affairs
Hilary James Benn (Labour, Centre-left): For two years, the Prime Minister has told the House that the only alternative to a withdrawal agreement is leaving the European Union with no deal. Can the Secretary of State confirm that today’s ruling by the European Court means that there are now two potential ways in which that could be avoided? The first is by extending article 50, and the second is by revoking it. Therefore, the Prime Minister’s threat—it would be disastrous for the country anyway—no longer has any credibility in law, does it?