No-deal EU Exit Preparations

Clive Efford Excerpts
Wednesday 20th March 2019

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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I welcome, as the Prime Minister does, all conversations about how the meaningful vote can be passed by this House. However, last week, the House voted by some big number—more than a majority of the number of MPs in this House—to reject a people’s vote.

Clive Efford Portrait Clive Efford (Eltham) (Lab)
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In answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Catherine West), who said that the cost of Brexit was currently £500 million a week, the Minister said that he did not recognise that figure. The Governor of the Bank of England says that the figure is actually £800 million a week. Which figure does the Minister recognise?

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Obviously the Governor of the Bank of England did not recognise that figure either.