Brexit: Parliamentary Processes

Lord Watts Excerpts
Tuesday 24th July 2018

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan
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I think there would be total uproar in this country if we did not implement the referendum vote. I am slightly confused about why this call for a second referendum is now being labelled a people’s vote, as if somehow the people did not get to vote in the first referendum.

Lord Watts Portrait Lord Watts (Lab)
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My Lords, can the Minister say what the Government will do if Parliament rejects the deal?

Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan
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We hope that Parliament will not reject the deal, but if it does, clearly the Government will have to contemplate that and come back to Parliament with a statement on how we proceed.