Article 50

Stuart C McDonald Excerpts
Wednesday 29th March 2017

(7 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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I have already set out that there are many areas of issues that the Scottish Government have raised in their paper on which we agree, as will become clear when we respond to that paper.

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Patience rewarded—Stuart C. McDonald.

Stuart C McDonald Portrait Stuart C. McDonald
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Thank you, Mr Speaker. I wonder, how would the Prime Minister have responded if Donald Tusk had simply said, “Now is not the time”?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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The hon. Gentleman, with his background, will know that the treaty on European Union enables the member state to trigger article 50 in the way in which we have done. It is then for the European Union to respond to that by setting out the basis of two years of negotiations.