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Leaving the EU

e-petition debate on Monday, 14 January 2019, in the House of Commons, led by Paul Scully. The answering member was Kwasi Kwarteng.
Motion that the House has considered e-petitions 229963, 221747 and 235185 relating to leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement, 232984 and 241361 relating to holding a further referendum on leaving the EU, and 226509 and 236261 relating to not leaving the EU. Agreed to on question. Sitting adjourned without Question put.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

652 cc253-292WH 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Paul Scully | 652 cc253-8WH (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House has considered e-petitions 229963, 221747 and 235185 relatin...

Graham Stringer | 652 cc256-262WH (Link to this contribution)

I agree with much of what the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Scully) said, except his fin...


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Andrea Jenkyns | 652 cc262-3WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hanson. I will speak in support of the peti...

Andrea Jenkyns | 652 cc263-4WH (Link to this contribution)

Therefore, if politicians want to respect the outcome of the referendum, WTO becomes a legitimate...

Alex Norris | 652 cc264-7WH (Link to this contribution)

This may be the first time I have served under your chairship, Mr Hanson. It is a pleasure to do ...

Graham Stringer | 652 c265WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right to say that there is no majority in the House of Commons for a general el...

Alex Norris | 652 cc265-8WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. I would not presume to explain any elements of the F...

Steve Double | 652 cc268-272WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hanson, and an honour to follow the hon. Me...

Ben Bradley | 652 cc272-5WH (Link to this contribution)

I am pleased to respond to the many petitions on the future of Brexit that have been submitted fo...

Paul Scully | 652 c273WH (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend agree that if the vote is lost and we move closer to WTO terms, or no-deal te...

Ben Bradley | 652 cc273-6WH (Link to this contribution)

Absolutely, and I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. He is absolutely right that we need...

Tommy Sheppard | 652 c276WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure, Mr Davies, to serve under your chairpersonship; I think it is for the first tim...

Paul Scully | 652 c276WH (Link to this contribution)

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Tommy Sheppard | 652 c276WH (Link to this contribution)

I will take an intervention, but I am really trying not to be divisive or critical; I am simply a...

Paul Scully | 652 c276WH (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I just wanted to explain that 4.30 pm on a Mo...

Tommy Sheppard | 652 cc276-7WH (Link to this contribution)

I understand that. The same is true of the Backbench Business Committee, which has no control ove...

Jim Shannon | 652 c277WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman referred to optimism, and the optimism of the 17.4 million people who voted to...

Tommy Sheppard | 652 cc277-8WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman has pre-empted me. I will come on to those precise points, so bear with me.

Steve Double | 652 c278WH (Link to this contribution)

I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman. I am interested to know the basis for his second ...

Tommy Sheppard | 652 c278WH (Link to this contribution)

I do not know about trusting opinion polls, but they are clearly evidence that people have change...

Jim Shannon | 652 c278WH (Link to this contribution)

Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?

Tommy Sheppard | 652 c278WH (Link to this contribution)

I will give way one more time, but I am anxious not to labour the point for long.

Jim Shannon | 652 c278WH (Link to this contribution)

In my constituency, people voted 56% to 44% to leave. Over the holiday period, I made it my busin...

Tommy Sheppard | 652 cc278-9WH (Link to this contribution)

I have no reason to gainsay what the hon. Gentleman says about his constituency. Likewise, in my ...

Steve Double | 652 c279WH (Link to this contribution)

Clearly, the EU has no legal right to do that, but I am sure the hon. Gentleman would agree that ...

Tommy Sheppard | 652 cc279-280WH (Link to this contribution)

As the hon. Gentleman says, the EU has absolutely no right to do that. It may be concerned about ...

Ben Bradley | 652 c280WH (Link to this contribution)

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Tommy Sheppard | 652 c280WH (Link to this contribution)

I will take the intervention, because I think I can guess what the hon. Gentleman will say.

Ben Bradley | 652 c280WH (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Gentleman not see the problem in presenting a deal that a petition of 300,000-odd p...

Tommy Sheppard | 652 cc280-2WH (Link to this contribution)

But it is Brexit. It may not be the type of Brexit the hon. Gentleman wants—it may not be as hard...

Paul Blomfield | 652 cc282-3WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to wind up the debate for the Opposition with you in the Chair, Mr Davies; I am ...

Graham Stringer | 652 c283WH (Link to this contribution)

We agree on tomorrow’s vote, but disagree on the objectives. I assume we agree that we all should...

Paul Blomfield | 652 c283WH (Link to this contribution)

I obviously agree with my hon. Friend that we should follow the law; there would not be much purp...

Steve Double | 652 c284WH (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, in the EU’s own words, nothing is agreed until everything is ...

Paul Blomfield | 652 cc284-5WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman knows that it was the last but one Brexit Secretary, himself an opponent of th...

Tommy Sheppard | 652 c286WH (Link to this contribution)

May I ask for a little more clarity? The hon. Gentleman says that if the deal is rejected, Labour...

Paul Blomfield | 652 c286WH (Link to this contribution)

I anticipated that intervention, and the hon. Gentleman will anticipate my response. I said that ...

Kwasi Kwarteng | 652 c286WH (Link to this contribution)

I said to myself, I think about halfway through the debate, that I would keep my remarks brief, b...

Geraint Davies | 652 c286WH (Link to this contribution)

May I say that you have only 45 minutes?

Kwasi Kwarteng | 652 cc286-8WH (Link to this contribution)

I am fully aware of the timescale. You are lucky, Mr Davies, that my hour-long speech will have t...

Tommy Sheppard | 652 c287WH (Link to this contribution)

If the Minister is so convinced that he and the Brexiteers, as he calls them, would win a second ...

Kwasi Kwarteng | 652 cc287-9WH (Link to this contribution)

What was interesting about the hon. Gentleman’s speech was that about halfway through it, I reali...

Graham Stringer | 652 c289WH (Link to this contribution)

I agree completely with the Minister’s point about the motivation for a second referendum, but so...

Kwasi Kwarteng | 652 cc289-290WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is right to raise that issue. My understanding is that the Government will not...

Andrea Jenkyns | 652 c290WH (Link to this contribution)

The reason we are likely to go through the same Lobby is, quite frankly, because the Government h...

Kwasi Kwarteng | 652 c290WH (Link to this contribution)

That illustrates exactly what I was going to say—in a funny way, it actually makes my argument fo...

Andrea Jenkyns | 652 c290WH (Link to this contribution)

It takes a lot for somebody who has always been loyal to the party over the past decade or so—and...

Geraint Davies | 652 c290WH (Link to this contribution)

Just to clarify, obviously it is not me.

Kwasi Kwarteng | 652 cc290-1WH (Link to this contribution)

I urge the hon. Lady and her Brexiteer colleagues to vote for the deal. I am not speaking as a Go...

Paul Scully | 652 cc291-2WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the second half of the debate, Mr Davies. I...

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