My hon. Friend is being very generous in giving way, but that was a bit of sophistry that we have just heard. Six million people—an extraordinary number—signed this petition as against some of the leave petitions, just as there was a 1 million-person march as opposed to the pathetic little leave march, showing a change in the zeitgeist, if I am allowed to use European words. Are we not seeing the people speaking up at last and saying, “We are not going to allow some of the people in the House of Commons to ruin the country, economically and politically, for the future”?
Leaving the European Union
Proceeding contribution from
Andy Slaughter
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 1 April 2019.
It occurred during e-petition debate on Leaving the European Union.
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