Exiting the European Union: Meaningful Vote

Angela Eagle Excerpts

Tuesday 11th December 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mr Lidington]

My hon. Friend puts it well. As I have said, the Prime Minister is responding to the wish expressed by many Members of the House.

[Ms Angela Eagle (Wallasey) (Lab)]

The right hon. Gentleman and I both entered the House at the same time, and I doubt that either of us has been in a situation quite as dangerous and fraught as this. Surely he will agree that, after yesterday, the Prime Minister has shredded her credibility and that many people on both sides of the House now find it almost impossible to believe a word she says. She asserts one thing one day and the opposite the day after. She sends her Cabinet out to assert that the vote is going ahead even as she is planning to pull it. Surely he must understand that we cannot go on with this Prime Minister at the helm.