Lee Rowley
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(5 years, 4 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
What I have pointed out today to Members of this House is the duty that each and every one of us has, having stood, as the hon. Gentleman did, on a manifesto to deliver on the result of the referendum, to do exactly that.
Lee Rowley (North East Derbyshire) (Con)
Can the Prime Minister give me one example of how a political reassurance, in law, can ever supersede the binding words of an international treaty?
The Prime Minister
My hon. Friend is making an assumption about what will come back from the European Union. It is the task of the Government, obviously, to look to negotiate something that will be sufficient to give confidence to Members of this House in relation to the backstop not being able to be indefinite.