EU Withdrawal Agreement

Debate between Lyn Brown and Nigel Evans

Tuesday 18th December 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mr Evans]

I admire that honesty, because a lot of people who bang on about this Orwellian concept of a people’s vote as if 2016 had not happened tend not to be as honest about their real motives. Their real motives are that they wish to stop Brexit; they wish to overturn the people’s vote of 2016.

[Lyn Brown (West Ham) (Lab)]

The situation is very simple: I do not want my constituents to be poorer than they are at the moment, which is why we are sitting here day after day trying to get the Government to do something about it.

[Mr Evans]

It is wonderful that there is so much honesty here now. One of the Sunday papers said that eight of the nine organisations that are now backing the people’s vote state explicitly on their websites that they are trying to overturn Brexit, so let us not have any pretence about that.

Strategic Defence and Security Review

Debate between Lyn Brown and Nigel Evans

Thursday 26th January 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Nigel Evans)]

Order. The hon. Gentleman’s time is up.

[Lyn Brown (West Ham) (Lab)]

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I have informed the office of the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) that I intend to raise this point of order. This morning at business questions, the hon. Gentleman told the House that Ken Livingstone intends to overturn the ban on drinking alcohol on public transport in London. That is simply untrue; Ken Livingstone will not overturn the ban on drinking alcohol on public transport. I wonder, Mr Deputy Speaker, whether you have had any indication whatsoever that the hon. Member for Harrow East intends to come to the Chamber to correct the record.

Opportunities for the Next Generation

Debate between Lyn Brown and Nigel Evans

Tuesday 13th September 2011 Commons Chamber

[Lyn Brown]

Does my hon. Friend agree that the biggest problem with this Government is that they take an awful lot with one hand, and give back a few pebbles with the other hand, to the people we represent? The biggest problem young people have had to face in trying to fulfil their aspirations in my constituency is the removal of their education maintenance allowance, which is not being replaced by anything of equal value. The replacement is certainly not going to provide for as many people in my constituency as EMA did. Although Conservative Members can talk about their grandiose schemes, they are not replacing what they have taken away—

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Nigel Evans)]

Order. Will the hon. Lady face the Chair so that the microphones can pick up her words?