Brexit: No-deal Preparations Debate

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Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

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Brexit: No-deal Preparations

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Spring Statement
Wednesday 20th March 2019

(5 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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That would depend on whether the EU was prepared to agree an extension in such circumstances. If so, we would need to table some secondary legislation in both Houses, on which there will be further opportunity for discussion in this House.

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My Lords, absent from this Statement is any sense of contrition or responsibility that we have been brought to circumstances in which we could crash out of the European Union in a matter of days. Do the Government not accept and understand their responsibility in this matter?

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Yes, the Government accept their responsibility in this matter. We negotiated what we thought was a good deal but have so far been unable to convince the House of Commons of this.

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