EU Referendum: Lessons Learned

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for the fairness you have always shown me in this and previous Parliaments...

I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s question. I will not tangle with all the things that he ra...

I congratulate my hon. Friend and his Committee on a comprehensive report. I agree with the remar...

I do. We made a specific recommendation that a new body be established to monitor cyber-activity ...

I am a member of the Committee, so there is plenty I could say about the report, but I will respe...

It is a fact—I make no comment on it, as an impartial Chairman of my Committee—that referendums a...

Was there any discussion in the Committee about the franchise for the referendum? If 16 and 17-ye...

I ask the hon. Gentleman: why stop at 16? Why not 14 or 12? These are subjective judgments made b...

Does not the hon. Gentleman agree that our system for referendums and elections is more vulnerabl...

With respect, I have asked that question, and I feel I have been rather brushed off by Ministers,...

I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman and to the work of the Committee. I was proud to be a member ...

I think there is always an advantage in what one might call a post-legislative referendum, or a r...