October EU Council Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office
Monday 22nd October 2018

(6 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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Going for it and getting us a good deal is exactly what I am working on.

Heidi Allen Portrait Heidi Allen (South Cambridgeshire) (Con)
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I have no doubt at all that the Prime Minister thinks of every individual person in this country when she is negotiating the best possible deal, but I fail to understand how it can be a politicians’ vote when nearly 700,000 members of the public took to the streets to display their dissatisfaction. I ask her again: what will she do if we come to the position of no deal, which will not get through this House? What other options are there?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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We should all recall that, in the vote that took place in 2016, larger numbers of people voted than we had ever seen voting before, and the decision was to leave the European Union. We have set out in legislation the process that will be followed by the Government if we are in the situation where a deal brought back from the European Union by the Government and put to this House is rejected by this House.