I just put that forward as a problem. I believe as passionately in my case as my right hon. Friend does in hers. I sympathise and understand, but we have to accept that the country voted to leave. The one thing we know about how people voted—whether it was for this deal or that deal, whether they believed or disbelieved this or that piece of propaganda—is that they voted to leave the EU. That is the one thing it said on the ballot paper. I cannot understand how anyone can come to the House and say, “Well, there might be circumstances in which I will not respect that decision”, as the right hon. Member for Knowsley (Mr Howarth) just did. That is what it amounts to.
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
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Bernard Jenkin
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 14 November 2017.
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and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on European Union (Withdrawal) Bill.
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