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Tue 29th Oct 2019
Early Parliamentary General Election Bill
Commons Chamber

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Early Parliamentary General Election Bill

Debate between Andrew Percy and Bill Grant
3rd reading: House of Commons & Committee: 1st sitting: House of Commons
Tuesday 29th October 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Andrew Percy Portrait Andrew Percy
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No, I will not give way to the hon. Lady.

Some want to talk about promises made in a referendum campaign about whether people would be poorer or richer afterwards, but I am afraid we will take no lectures from the SNP on this matter.

Bill Grant Portrait Bill Grant (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) (Con)
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We hear what it believes to be the voice of Scotland, but the SNP is the voice of some of Scotland. What SNP Members do not often say is that more people voted in Scotland to leave the European Union in 2016 than voted for the SNP at the general election in 2017—and that is a fact. A lot of people in Scotland voted to leave the European Union.

Andrew Percy Portrait Andrew Percy
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Indeed, that is absolutely true, but, as I have said, in fairness to SNP Members, their position on wanting to cancel Brexit is at least a consistent one, and one on which they stood in the 2017 general election.

We also heard this in the intervention by the hon. Member for Wrexham (Ian C. Lucas), who again suggested that there was some sort of fiddling in favour of leave. This is why this Parliament is so broken, and why this Parliament is—