Leaving the EU: Business of the House

Barry Sheerman Excerpts

Wednesday 12th June 2019 Commons Chamber

[Keir Starmer]

rose—

[Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) (Lab/Co-op)]

Before my right hon. and learned Friend moves on, will he give way?

[Keir Starmer]

I will take a double intervention.

[Mr Sheerman]

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]

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.