Brexit Negotiations Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Brexit Negotiations

Wera Hobhouse Excerpts
Thursday 3rd October 2019

(4 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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Yes, of course. We will make sure that we set out what we want to do with the political declaration and with our very considerable ambitions for FTAs.

Wera Hobhouse Portrait Wera Hobhouse (Bath) (LD)
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The Prime Minister is promising to get Brexit done at the end of the month. But the EU is not going to sink to the bottom of the sea, and today’s exchanges—lasting almost two hours—have demonstrated that many, many questions are unanswered and nothing has been resolved. Rather than this being “getting Brexit done”, is not this the “never-ending Brexit”?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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If I may, I am going to seize on that because the hon. Lady has it in her hands to help us all to get this thing over the line. This proposal is the basis of a deal; it is not a deal. We have to get it agreed with our EU friends and it will not be easy, but if I am able to return to the House of Commons with a deal like this, I hope—from what she has said today—that she will vote to get this thing done.