EU: UK Settlement

Baroness Stowell of Beeston Excerpts

Wednesday 8th June 2016 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Ludford (LD)]

My Lords—

[The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Stowell of Beeston) (Con)]

My Lords, I will sit down and see which of these noble Baronesses—

[Noble Lords]

Labour!

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[Baroness Stowell of Beeston]

It seems that the House would like to hear from the Labour Benches.

[Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top]

Will the noble Baroness confirm that if the British people decide to leave the European Union none of the provisions agreed on 19 February will prevail and, until our membership is finished after the negotiations over our exit route, none of the aspects in the deal will apply?

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[Noble Lords]

This side!

[Baroness Stowell of Beeston]

My Lords, I am sorry to have to get up again. I think it is the turn of the Lib Dem Benches, having not heard from them. Then we can come back to the Conservative Benches.

[Baroness Ludford]

Does the Minister agree that the February decision of the heads of state and government—not of the European Council—and indeed our future in the EU, has a degree of clarity and certainty which shines out, compared with the sketchy and shifting scenarios that we hear from the Brexiteers, whose model is based variously on Norway, Canada or Albania, depending on the speaker, the day or the hour?