Leaving the EU: Economic Analysis

Wera Hobhouse Excerpts
Tuesday 30th January 2018

(6 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Steve Baker Portrait Mr Baker
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I must exercise some caution, Mr Speaker, because as you will know, Wycombe District, which is substantially larger than the constituency of Wycombe, did express the other view. However, what I think we need to do is come together to unite around the result as a country, and to choose for ourselves not to leave the EU because we must or because we ought, but to leave the EU successfully because we choose to abide by the democratic decision of the United Kingdom as a whole.

Wera Hobhouse Portrait Wera Hobhouse (Bath) (LD)
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How can we unite together when the Government are withholding information from the rest of the House?

Steve Baker Portrait Mr Baker
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It is very difficult to answer the question of how we can unite together when certain Members of this House, including, I am sorry to say, the hon. Lady, keep provoking as much division as possible. She represents a party claiming to be liberal and democratic, and which once offered a real referendum on Europe, but we have had a real referendum on Europe and it is time for her to get behind the result.