Brexit Negotiations and No Deal Contingency Planning Debate

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Hywel Williams

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Brexit Negotiations and No Deal Contingency Planning

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Point of Order
Tuesday 4th September 2018

(6 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Dominic Raab Portrait Dominic Raab
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. One of the great advantages of Brexit— notwithstanding the doom and gloom on the other side—is that we will be an independent coastal state, with all the rights under international law that that brings.

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Is the Secretary of State aware that the most recent Welsh YouGov poll shows a clear majority in favour of staying in the European Union rather than risking a no deal exit? Does he not agree that that is a shift in public opinion, and that the most obvious pragmatic answer to the divisions over Brexit is to hold a people’s referendum?

Dominic Raab Portrait Dominic Raab
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Let me gently say to the hon. Gentleman that we do not do political decision making in this country by reference to polls. We had a referendum, the country voted to leave the EU, and that is what we are going to do.

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