Priorities for Government Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Priorities for Government

Anna Soubry Excerpts
Thursday 25th July 2019

(5 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Anna Soubry Portrait Anna Soubry (Broxtowe) (IGC)
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But, despite all the optimism, if the Prime Minister fails to secure some magical, mythical new deal with the European Union, will he promise now at the Dispatch Box that the matter will return to this sovereign Parliament so that we can decide what happens next before 31 October? A simple yes or no will do.

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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This Parliament has already voted several times to honour the mandate of the people to come out of the EU, and that is what we should do. I think that the right hon. Lady herself voted to trigger article 50, unless I am mistaken. I would encourage her to stick by the pledge she made.