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Department: Cabinet Office

European Council

Lord Walney Excerpts
Monday 25th March 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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If the hon. Lady believes in trusting the people, she should trust the result of the 2014 Scottish referendum.

Lord Walney Portrait John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness) (Ind)
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I implore the Prime Minister not to believe that she can run down the clock to the extent that she puts her deal back to the Commons with days to go and think that Members across the House will vote differently. If she takes it to the wire and makes it a choice between her deal or no deal, she will usher in a period of economic chaos and political damage that will give succour to the extreme fringes of our politics on the left and the right.

Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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I want us to be able to leave the European Union in an orderly way. I want us to recognise the vote, to deliver on that Brexit and to do it in an orderly way, which, as I have said before, protects not only our Union, but jobs and livelihoods for people and our security. That is what I will continue to work for.