Brexit: Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 Debate

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Department: Department for Exiting the European Union

Brexit: Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010

Lord Spicer Excerpts
Tuesday 13th December 2016

(7 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Bridges of Headley Portrait Lord Bridges of Headley
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I am sorry that I am being coy, my Lords. We have set out where Parliament will indeed be playing a very crucial role in the repeal of the European Communities Act, and Parliament—and this House—has been doing a tremendous amount of very useful scrutiny and work in the EU Select Committee and elsewhere. We will indeed look at what steps will be taken through the process, but I am not able to go further at this stage.

Lord Spicer Portrait Lord Spicer (Con)
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Is not the essence of the European Union the single market? If you leave one, you leave the other and, for that matter, if you leave the other, you leave the one.