No-deal Brexit: Short Positions against the Pound Debate

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No-deal Brexit: Short Positions against the Pound

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Wrightbus (Ballymena)
Monday 30th September 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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The Government are doing what they are doing because we believe it is right to leave the European Union on 31 October, as we all promised that we would. That is absolutely what animates our actions; any suggestion to the contrary is not just wrong but offensive.

Peter Grant Portrait Peter Grant (Glenrothes) (SNP)
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How does the Minister defend a situation in which anyone who is caught insider gambling deliberately to fix the result of a game of cricket goes to jail, but anyone who is insider gambling deliberately to crash the economy is likely to end up in the House of Lords?

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That is a very serious suggestion. I would not recommend that the hon. Gentleman repeat it outside the Chamber.

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