European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Debate between Viscount Ridley and Viscount Hailsham

Monday 19th March 2018 Lords Chamber

[Viscount Hailsham]

My noble friend really must face the possibility that Parliament will take a different view, in which case the Government will do what Parliament says—or we are not in a parliamentary democracy.

[Viscount Ridley]

I was under the impression that that is exactly what we are debating right here and now, and it is what the other place debated fully—and came to a very different decision from the one that we might come to here.