Oral Answers to Questions

Ged Killen Excerpts

Thursday 28th February 2019 Commons Chamber

[Wera Hobhouse (Bath) (LD)]

6. What recent discussions he has had with EU officials on extending article 50.

[Ged Killen (Rutherglen and Hamilton West) (Lab/Co-op)]

7. What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on extending article 50.

[Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) (Lab)]

10. What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on extending article 50.

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[Stephen Barclay]

We are clear that we want to secure a deal and that we do not want to extend. The hon. Lady should really come clean, because she says that she wants to extend but what she really wants is to go back on the largest vote in our country’s history and revoke Brexit entirely. She does not want to extend in order to secure a deal; she wants to stay in the EU and go back on the deal. She is praying in aid an extension when that is not really her policy.

[Ged Killen]

If there is a vote on 14 March, will the Secretary of State vote to extend article 50?

[Stephen Barclay]

We have already had this question twice, but I am happy to refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave a moment ago. We are committed to securing a deal; that is the Government’s objective.