European Union (Withdrawal) Bill
Debate between Baroness Hoey and Kelvin Hopkins
Committee: 8th sitting: House of Commons
Wednesday 20th December 2017
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Wednesday 20th December 2017
(7 years ago)
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Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North) (Ind)
Does my hon. Friend agree that if Parliament appeared to be dragging its feet on leaving the EU when a majority of the people decided that we should leave, the people would get frustrated with Parliament? We have to remember their wishes.
Kate Hoey
I agree. One of the good things about the Minister is that he is not a lawyer, which is perhaps why he has been able to treat this matter with quite a lot of common sense. The debate has been rather taken over by lawyers and lawyer speak, and it is pretty clear that they love things being so technical.