Brexit: Options Debate
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(5 years, 6 months ago)
Lords ChamberTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the different options Parliament has in relation to leaving the European Union.
My Lords, the Motion passed on 29 January in the other place seeking legally binding changes to the Northern Ireland protocol is the only way to deliver a sustainable majority. The Government will continue to pursue this to ensure that we leave with a deal on 29 March. If MPs do not vote for the deal, the default legal position is that the UK will leave without a deal at the end of March.
Surely the Government could also do something useful at the moment, such as sending Ministers to urgent anti-self-harm corrective therapy sessions. However, should they not also now promise the House to extend Article 50 and start preparing for a people’s vote as well in case things go wrong on 27 February?
I can tell the noble Lord that, instead of sending Ministers to self-help therapy sessions, we are sending them to Brussels.