European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill

Andrew Griffiths Excerpts
Monday 8th April 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ian Murray Portrait Ian Murray
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I am grateful for that intervention. To paraphrase a former Secretary of State, a democracy fails to be a democracy if the public are not allowed to change their mind. That is exactly what people have been doing. [Interruption.]

Andrew Griffiths Portrait Andrew Griffiths (Burton) (Con)
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The hon. Gentleman has mentioned on a number of occasions the hundreds of years of activity in and decisions taken by this place. Can he give one example of when such an important constitutional Bill has been rammed through this House with fewer than four hours of debate?