Article 50

Liz Kendall Excerpts

Tuesday 24th January 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Davis]

I take my hon. Friend’s point, and I will seek incisive brevity.

[Liz Kendall (Leicester West) (Lab)]

The Prime Minister said that

“no deal…is better than a bad deal”,

but ending up on World Trade Organisation rules could be the worst possible deal, hitting businesses and families hard. May I press the Secretary of State: will there be a vote in this House at the end of the trade negotiations—not just the article 50 process, but the trade negotiations—so that Parliament can decide what is in Britain’s national economic interest?

[Mr Davis]

I will correct the hon. Lady slightly: there will not be a simple trade negotiation. The European Union pretty much always insists that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, so justice and home affairs, security matters and a whole series of other issues will be tied into it. But, yes, there will be a vote at the end of it. We have already agreed to that.