Leaving the EU: Business of the House Debate

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Leaving the EU: Business of the House

Barry Sheerman Excerpts
Wednesday 12th June 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Barry Sheerman Portrait Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) (Lab/Co-op)
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Before my right hon. and learned Friend moves on, will he give way?

Keir Starmer Portrait Keir Starmer
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I will take a double intervention.

Barry Sheerman Portrait Mr Sheerman
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We have heard a lot about parliamentary democracy in the short time we have been having this debate, but this is surely about parliamentary sovereignty—our right to have a voice on all the great issues of state.

Keir Starmer Portrait Keir Starmer
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I absolutely agree with both interventions. That is why I started by saying that this motion makes a very simple proposition: that Parliament should not be shut out of the decision on no deal or shut out of the process altogether. I cannot think of why any parliamentarian would vote against that proposition—I genuinely cannot.