The hon. Gentleman referred to optimism, and the optimism of the 17.4 million people who voted to leave cannot be ignored. I respect his comments. He and I probably disagree on many things, including this issue, but does he not agree that a second referendum would, by its very nature, be divisive and, unfortunately, engineer more disquiet and anger among the people by totally ignoring the referendum of June 2016, when 17.4 million people said, “We want to leave”? Let us honour that.
Leaving the EU
Proceeding contribution from
Jim Shannon
(Democratic Unionist Party)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 14 January 2019.
It occurred during e-petition debate on Leaving the EU.
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