European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill Debate

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Rupa Huq

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Speaker’s Statement

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

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Friday 20th December 2019

(4 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Corbyn Portrait Jeremy Corbyn
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The Prime Minister, your leader—if I may say so, Mr Speaker—said that workers rights were going to protected. They are not, in this Bill.

Rupa Huq Portrait Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton) (Lab)
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Is not the whole point that the withdrawal agreement seems to be diminishing all the time? This is worse than the agreement from the previous Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May). There are things that have vanished from the one that we had before the election. It is not only workers’ rights that have been downgraded. It is parliamentarians’ rights, because the legislature’s ability to scrutinise the Executive has been taken away. It is bad for democracy.

Jeremy Corbyn Portrait Jeremy Corbyn
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My hon. Friend is absolutely correct.

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