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Department: Leader of the House
Monday 1st April 2019

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Bernard Jenkin Portrait Sir Bernard Jenkin
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It is a question of who imported whose model. Montesquieu actually thought that he was copying the British system when he created a United States constitution that gives the President a legislative veto and requires a two-thirds majority of Congress to overrule it.

Nick Boles Portrait Nick Boles (Grantham and Stamford) (Con)
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Would my hon. Friend feel the same way if my right hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset (Sir Oliver Letwin) proposed to use Wednesday to legislate in favour of a no-deal Brexit?

Bernard Jenkin Portrait Sir Bernard Jenkin
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Very droll. My hon. Friend rather misses the point of my opening remarks that I do not wish to discuss Brexit. I simply point out that he voted for the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, which legislated for us to leave the EU with or without a withdrawal agreement. He put that on the statute book with me, so in that respect, parliamentary democracy has been served.