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David T C Davies Excerpts
Thursday 14th June 2018

(6 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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In reference to the honour of the hon. Member for Jarrow (Mr Hepburn), I would simply point out that rights, standards and protections do amount to a pretty broad category, and he has behaved, as usual, in a perfectly orderly, if innovative, manner.

David T C Davies Portrait David T. C. Davies (Monmouth) (Con)
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Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the most fundamental rights is to decide who determines our legislation and where that legislation comes from, and that that is exactly the right that we are protecting when we listen to what the people have told us and withdraw from the European Union?

Steve Baker Portrait Mr Baker
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Yes. The fundamental political right is that power should derive from the consent of the governed. In leaving the European Union, we will re-establish that consent on a basis that has been traditionally understood, which is that it is this Parliament that will determine the laws of the United Kingdom.