Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rosena Allin-Khan and Jane Ellison

Tuesday 17th January 2017 Commons Chamber

[Jane Ellison]

As I recall, the original directive did have some negative effects, but it was improved on in subsequent negotiations to ensure that it did not have the same effect.

[Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting) (Lab)]

Voters partly backed leave on the basis of the £350 million economic boost that our NHS is still waiting for. Where, therefore, is the democratic mandate for this Conservative version of hard Brexit—leaving the customs union and the single market—that the Chancellor himself has accepted damages the economy and that puts jobs in my Tooting constituency at risk?