Withdrawal Agreement: Proposed Changes Debate

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Department: Department for Exiting the European Union

Withdrawal Agreement: Proposed Changes

Ruth George Excerpts
Monday 7th October 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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James Duddridge Portrait James Duddridge
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I see all the papers I need to, but I will not go through them, on a paper by paper basis, saying which version I have seen and when I have seen it. I simply will not do that; it is not helpful to the Government process.

Ruth George Portrait Ruth George (High Peak) (Lab)
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If the Minister is so convinced that this is a good deal, whether or not he has seen the paperwork, why will the Government not put that deal straight to the British people?

James Duddridge Portrait James Duddridge
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Because they have already voted for Brexit.