Leaving the EU Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Leaving the EU

Antoinette Sandbach Excerpts
Monday 26th November 2018

(6 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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As the hon. Lady has heard, I am very clear that we should leave the European Union because the vote of the British people was to leave the EU. It may be the policy of others not to do so. I do not know if it is the hon. Lady’s. By the sound of it, she would rather we stayed in the European Union. I do not think that would be right. I think that would be betraying the trust that the people put in us.

Antoinette Sandbach Portrait Antoinette Sandbach (Eddisbury) (Con)
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May I urge the Prime Minister, when she hears cries of “No surrender” as some Members of this House want to drag us to a no-deal Brexit, to remember that that would be catastrophic for my constituents in Eddisbury? Will she remind those Members of the House that the Conservative manifesto made commitments to

“a deep and special partnership”

and “a comprehensive…customs agreement” with Europe? Does this deal deliver on that?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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Yes, I am happy to tell my hon. Friend that this deal does indeed deliver on that manifesto commitment.