EU Exit: Article 50

Liz McInnes Excerpts
Monday 10th December 2018

(5 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Steve Barclay Portrait Stephen Barclay
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What the right hon. Gentleman omitted from that question was that his own constituency voted to leave and he himself voted to trigger article 50. It is a little rich to come to the Chamber to say that there is inconsistency when he himself voted to trigger article 50 and is now suggesting that we should revoke the very article that he voted to trigger.

Liz McInnes Portrait Liz McInnes (Heywood and Middleton) (Lab)
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Given the delay to the meaningful vote and the fact that there is no clarity at all as to the timescale from now on, how confident is the Secretary of State really that we will leave the EU with a deal on 29 March 2019?