Brexit Negotiations Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Brexit Negotiations

Thangam Debbonaire Excerpts
Monday 11th December 2017

(6 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Well done!

Thangam Debbonaire Portrait Thangam Debbonaire (Bristol West) (Lab)
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The Prime Minister must have had a different ballot paper from the one we had in Bristol West last year. There was no mention on mine of the single market or the customs union, nor was there any mention of Euratom, to which item 89 of the report refers. Will the Prime Minister please tell us which other organisations she believes she has a mandate to sweep off the table as we go through the negotiating period?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait The Prime Minister
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What was in the decision that people took in the referendum—what they were asked to decide—was whether to stay in the European Union. [Interruption.] The hon. Lady shakes her head and says that it did not mention the single market or the customs union. It was made very clear during the debate what leaving the European Union meant, and the British people voted for it.