EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions)

Ian C. Lucas Excerpts

Monday 1st April 2019 Commons Chamber

[Anna Soubry (Broxtowe) (Ind)]

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Chelmsford (Vicky Ford). I suggest that there is the real rub of what is going on, or the danger we face tonight if we do not look at what is behind what seems like a lot of sensible compromise. My real fear is that unless we vote for motions (E) and (G), which I will vote for, the Government will, as the right hon. Member for Exeter (Mr Bradshaw) phrased it, put it in the bag and table yet again, for another vote, the Prime Minister’s withdrawal agreement and slip into the political declaration either the customs union or the so-called common market 2.0. I will not vote for the customs union because it does not deliver the frictionless trade that our manufacturing sector desperately needs. My concern about motion (D) is exactly that.

[Ian C. Lucas (Wrexham) (Lab)]

Compromise!

[Anna Soubry]

The hon. Gentleman says “Compromise”, and I hear exactly what he says, but it would not be in the withdrawal—