Brexit: Data Transfer

Lord Cormack Excerpts
Thursday 16th November 2017

(6 years, 12 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan
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The noble Lord has a widely expressed opinion on Article 50, but I think he will find that 17.4 million of our fellow citizens also had an opinion.

Lord Cormack Portrait Lord Cormack (Con)
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My Lords, before we get into too tetchy an argument, and further to what my noble friend Lord Forsyth said a few moments ago, would my noble friend acknowledge that to state the facts and to question how we are tackling the European negotiations is not to be unpatriotic?

Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan
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I am very happy to agree with my noble friend that of course questioning matters of policy, tabling amendments and debating the important legislation that is going through this House and another place is not unpatriotic. It is a duty of parliamentarians.