European Union: Final Withdrawal Agreement Debate

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European Union: Final Withdrawal Agreement

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Intergenerational Fairness in Government Policy
Thursday 26th October 2017

(7 years ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Dykes Portrait Lord Dykes (CB)
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My Lords, does the Minister agree that her answers are a bit too long and do not allow enough people to get in on these occasions, which are very important? Was she impressed two days ago with the interesting comments of Mayor Bloomberg—a very successful international businessman and ex-mayor of New York—that the decision of the Government to leave the European Union was as stupid as Donald Trump, the President of the United States?

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Too long!

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Will she now ask her colleagues to think again about these matters, as the Government become more and more of a laughing stock, and decide what to do in the real interests of this country?

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