Leaving the EU: Parliamentary Vote

Peter Bone Excerpts
Thursday 26th October 2017

(7 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Davis Portrait Mr Davis
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I am afraid that I have lost count of the questions. As the hon. Lady is challenging the status of statements from this Dispatch Box, I will repeat this to her. The choice will be meaningful: whether to accept that deal or to move ahead without a deal. Full stop. That was the promise that was made.

Peter Bone Portrait Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough) (Con)
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I listened to the Chair of the Select Committee, and I want the House to know that he was expressing his view, and not the view of everyone on the Committee.

Hilary Benn Portrait Hilary Benn
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Of course it was my view.

Peter Bone Portrait Mr Bone
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Well, in the past, Sir, Select Committee Chairmen have come to this House to represent the Committee, not their own personal views. [Interruption.] I am diverging and wasting the House’s time. [Interruption.] Sorry, let me get to the point. I would like the Secretary of State to agree with Labour Members that, if we do not have agreement by October 2018, it will be impossible to do a deal. Will he go back to Brussels and say, “If we do not have a deal by 26 October 2018, there will not be a deal and we will be coming out without one”?

David Davis Portrait Mr Davis
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My hon. Friend is trying to tempt me. No, it is my job to get the best deal possible, and if that means keeping going until November, then so be it; that is what we will do.