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European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill

That is an interesting point. The amendments are fresh, but the key thing for me is that the House has shown in the last three months�certainly in the last two to three weeks�that it will not accept unilaterally what the Prime Minister wants to bring back to the House, and this House has many ways in which it can check the Executive�s decisions.

The simple point I make is that, in my constituency in north Wales, the manufacturing businesses that make cars have said that no deal would cost them �10 million per day; the farmers who produce lamb would not be

able to export in a no-deal scenario; and Airbus, which makes the best planes in the world, would have difficulty exporting in a no-deal scenario. The Cabinet Office has said that prices would rise�it is not me saying that, it is the Government�s own estimation.

My right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford mentioned the European arrest warrant and the SIS II agreement on sharing information. We do not know whether those would exist in their current form in a no-deal scenario. In the Select Committee on Justice, on which I sit, neither the Secretary of State for Justice this morning nor the Solicitor General yesterday could give assurances about the future relationship on important matters of security and justice in a no-deal scenario.

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657 cc1168-9 

Session

2017-19

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House of Commons chamber
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