It is not just a question of assurances given from the Dispatch Box. In clause 9, Ministers are proposing to take a power that would enable them, after the event, to get rid of what they have described as safeguards in the Bill if they feel like it, by means of the mechanisms provided in that clause. Does that not undermine the confidence that the House can have in those safeguards, given that they may no longer be in the text of the Bill when it becomes an Act?
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Hilary Benn
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 12 December 2017.
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Committee of the Whole House (HC) on European Union (Withdrawal) Bill.
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