Prime Minister's Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Prime Minister's Update

Angus Brendan MacNeil Excerpts
Wednesday 25th September 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Angus Brendan MacNeil Portrait Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP)
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This Brexit debacle is certainly an agent for change. Following on from the point made by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry), the SNP Scottish Government have a mandate to hold an independent referendum, which I hope the Prime Minister respects. The First Minister of Scotland has said that she intends before Christmas to ask for a section 30 order to facilitate the referendum in the next year. Can the Prime Minister give Scotland an update: will he agree to a section 30 order, when the Scottish Government ask for it, so that they can hold the mandated referendum—yes or no?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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The people of Scotland were promised it was a once-in-a-generation referendum, and we must respect that promise.