Monday 11th February 2019

(5 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Grayling Portrait Chris Grayling
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Precisely because, as I said, we already had secured options that would enable us to provide alternatives.

Drew Hendry Portrait Drew Hendry (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) (SNP)
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Throughout this ridiculous Brexit shambles, Brexiteers have liked to lean on historical events to justify the metaphors for some of their Brexit fantasies. Was this calamity actually engineered by the Secretary of State, so that he could paint himself as some kind of latter-day Horatio Nelson—“I see no ships”? Well, we see no competence. Will he resign?

Lord Grayling Portrait Chris Grayling
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Actually, I did see ships—they were lined up ready to go on this route. It is a shame the backers pulled out.