I think I acknowledged earlier that these points go predominantly to the political declaration and not the withdrawal agreement. Those two documents cannot be separated because they go together. [Interruption.] Well, an example of that is the customs union. The political declaration says that it builds on the withdrawal agreement; we cannot treat them as two separate documents, and the legislation that we will be voting on does not allow us to vote on them separately. But on the general proposition—do we accept that, for example, the backstop, whatever our concerns about it, is inevitable? The answer is yes. I said that when I stood here two weeks ago, and I make that clear again today.
UK’s Withdrawal from the EU
Proceeding contribution from
Keir Starmer
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 27 February 2019.
It occurred during Debate on UK’s Withdrawal from the EU.
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