EU Exit Negotiations

Caroline Lucas Excerpts

Tuesday 17th October 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davis]

There are no plans to get up and walk away.

[Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion) (Green)]

With it looking increasingly likely that the Prime Minister’s claim that no deal is better than a bad deal might be put to the test, and with new research out today—not only the report mentioned by the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton South East (Mr McFadden) but the OECD report—indicating that that would result in an horrendous economic situation, will the Secretary of State assure the House of Commons that it will have a meaningful opportunity to vote on what would be a disastrous outcome of the current gridlocked negotiations? That vote is going to be crucial because this is not what the referendum was about.

[Mr Davis]

During the passage of the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017, the Government gave an undertaking that there will be a vote on the deal.