European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill

The right hon. Lady is being very generous in giving way, and I appreciate the manner in which she has introduced the debate, but may I gently remind her that predictions about the consequences of voting to leave or no deal have proved very wrong in the past? We heard dire economic predictions in 2016�for instance, it was predicted that by Christmas that year 500,000 more people would be unemployed�but the economic reality has been very different. The predictions were wrong then, and I suggest to her that they are wrong now.