European Council: Article 50 Extension
Debate between Kwasi Kwarteng and Jo Stevens(5 years ago)
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Kwasi Kwarteng
My hon. Friend is quite right. The Government would have to lay a statutory instrument and the House would have to debate and vote on it.
Jo Stevens (Cardiff Central) (Lab)
Does the Minister not accept the irony—some would say hypocrisy—of the Government saying the public can have a vote neither on whether to agree the Prime Minister’s deal or remain nor in the European elections but that the House can vote three times on her deal?
Kwasi Kwarteng
And Labour Members are urging the Cooper-Boles amendment. It has been rejected twice, yet they still seek to bring it back to the House. That is how the House of Commons is operating these days.