EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions) Debate

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Department: Department for Exiting the European Union

EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions)

Justine Greening Excerpts
Monday 1st April 2019

(5 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Justine Greening Portrait Justine Greening (Putney) (Con)
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The hon. Gentleman is fleshing out his arguments well. We cannot keep going around in circles. This Parliament has spent nearly three years debating the topic without finding a consensus, so we need to understand that we must break that deadlock, and he is right that the only way of doing so is through a public vote. Surely it makes more sense to have a public vote on the matter at hand, which is the route forward on Brexit, than a general election that may result in different MPs, but still a hung Parliament and no direction.

Peter Kyle Portrait Peter Kyle
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I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for her intervention. As she will see, I will reframe the way that she puts it, but I agree with the general direction.