Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Stephen Kerr Excerpts
Wednesday 17th October 2018

(6 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Mundell Portrait David Mundell
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It is incomprehensible to me and to the nearly half a million SNP voters who voted to leave the EU that the SNP Scottish Government still propose taking Scotland back into the common fisheries policy.

Stephen Kerr Portrait Stephen Kerr (Stirling) (Con)
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Will my right hon. Friend confirm that one potential devolution that the Government will never allow is for SNP Members to drag Scotland out of the UK against the will of the people, without even holding another referendum?

David Mundell Portrait David Mundell
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Mr Speaker, you have heard me say many times at the Dispatch Box that I want a second independence referendum taken off the table. What I did not mean was the solution of the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry), which is that independence could somehow be declared without a referendum.