Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Geoffrey Cox and Tim Loughton

Thursday 4th July 2019 Commons Chamber

[The Attorney General]

The House has been given the opportunity of leaving the European Union with a deal on three separate occasions. I do not recall the SNP ever voting for one of them. The answer is quite simple: we can still pass a withdrawal agreement and leave the European Union in an orderly way, but it is now quite clear that the imperative to leave the European Union is overriding. We must leave, and in my view we must do so this year—on 31 October.

[Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham) (Con)]

6. What recent steps he has taken to improve conviction rates in sexual abuse trials.