EU Withdrawal Agreement: Legal Changes Debate

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Department: Department for Exiting the European Union

EU Withdrawal Agreement: Legal Changes

Angela Eagle Excerpts
Monday 11th March 2019

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robin Walker Portrait Mr Walker
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My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. All I can say to him is that I hear the same thing from my constituents in Worcester as he hears from his constituents in Gloucester.

Angela Eagle Portrait Ms Angela Eagle (Wallasey) (Lab)
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The Minister is asking Parliament to accept that, two and a half years after the referendum, he will give us maybe just a few hours to consider the deal that the Prime Minister may or may not conclude sometime overnight before we have one of the most important votes this Parliament will ever hold. That is not acceptable, is it?

Robin Walker Portrait Mr Walker
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The hon. Lady knows that negotiations often go to the wire, and I think it is absolutely right that the Government should fight for the best possible outcome to those negotiations, especially when we have been instructed to do so by this House. That is what we are doing.