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want to make sure that my constituents and businesses in | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
particular, which I do think the somewhat ignored any debates so far, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
I going to be able to feed in their views in a more systematic way. If | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
were going to be leaving the European Union, we must not delay | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
further. To do so would frustrate our European friends and allies and | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
weaken our negotiating hands. I would like to clarify quickly, with | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
the Government in relation to the final vote, I'm worried as the | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Supreme Court ruled to put this Bill forward, I wonder how the court | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
would rule if the Government used probative powers to approve no deal. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
I will be voting to trigger article 52 night and I implore other members | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
to do the same. Given the short time available to me, I will restrict my | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
remarks. EU nationals and the single market in aviation isn't issue | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
important to my constituency. Instead of straight and says from | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
the Government, EU nationals living in the UK have only heard empty | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
words from the Tories. When my caseworkers in constituency office | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
is a woman born in Finland, she studied at Glasgow University and is | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
extremely upset that she is being used as a bargaining tool in the | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
story Brexit game that very few in Scotland wanted to play in the first | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
place. Other constituents have been in touch to allay their fears that | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
Brexit me rip their families apart. Regarding EU immigration and the | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
rate to remain is already harming the UK and will continue as long as | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
the Tories refused to confirm the rate of you national to remain in | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
the UK. It will impact businesses across these islands. One sector | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
that has not been given the attention it deserves in the | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
aviation sector. This vital part of the economy contributes ?1 billion a | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
week and ?9 billion in taxation. It is the third-largest aviation sector | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
in the world. Largely as a result of the agreement between the US and the | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
EU. By leaving the EU, the UK what sweet from these hugely important | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
agreements. An agreement that accounts for a lot of aviation | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
traffic. This is vital in Scotland. The Tories Rex dot-mac reckless | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
gamble will cause a serious impact on the Scottish economy. -- the | :02:39. | :02:51. | |
Tories' reckless gamble. Not the first time, we know what the | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
Scottish Government plan to do with the powers within its remit, but | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
what of the UK Government? Canny minister tellers the UK Government | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
want to remain part of the aviation agreement, and can he ensure that | :03:06. | :03:19. | |
the aviation will not suffer as a result of this. The 1 million people | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
in Renfrewshire whose jobs rely on a thriving aviation are watching | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
worried. The Government needs to guarantee that these statutory rates | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
will be protected, if she doesn't, she must offer a different path to | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
those living and working in Scotland. Yet our children's future, | :03:42. | :03:53. | |
yes for Scotland, yet independent. I agree with the honourable gentleman | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
who said that this was a debate he hopes would never happen and the | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
vote he hoped would never happen. I am a strong remain and I campaigned | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
hard for us to stay in the EU and I still think that our future would be | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
better off within it, but I do recognise the result of the British | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
people who have voted for Brexit. But I also recognise that my germ | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
constituency, in line with many university cities voted strongly to | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
remain. Madam Deputy Speaker, I was worried about the results on the | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
23rd of June. The north east is only 1.6% of its population are | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
foreign-born and hardly any of them live in Derham, and yet in the | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
campaign immigration was the most commonly cited reason for putting | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
me. It rose from people feeling like their views were not been taken into | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
account and that the access to jobs and services were diminishing. Not | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
least because of the posterity policies of the parties office it | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
did vital resources out of those most in need. -- posterity policies. | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
We have to tackle xenophobia and racism and we have to change our | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
immigration policies, but I hope we found a way of doing that without | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
simply withdrawing from the single market, because that will create as | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
many problems as it solves. We also had for decades of negative press | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
about Europe and it was impossible to overturn that within a few months | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
and make the positive case, not only for the EU, but for upholding human | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
rights and active participation in global institutions that do so much | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
to maintain peace and great prosperity in the world. I hope they | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
continue to have that international outward looking approach that we | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
need and reject the policies of Donald Trump and isolationism. I was | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
brave pleased that my constituency voted to remain, because the impact | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
of Brexit on the north-east is huge. We have a positive balance of trade, | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
with 58% of our exports going to Europe. We have no idea whether that | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
will continue if trade buyers arise and we need to hear more from the | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
governments on our automated industries, Aaron universities, | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
manufacturing and those in receipt of ES F and RDF funds. That would | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
create stability. They voted largely to remain, about how the Government | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
is going to deliver a more prosperous country. That's why we | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
need to adopt the amendments of labour and assure that we have a | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
vote on the final Brexit deal. Madam Picardy Speaker, I want to recognise | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
that my constituents in remain, but recognise that the country voted for | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
Brexit and I'm going to add steam this evening. Last summer I walked | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
through the fields of the Somme, I walked along the beaches of | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
Normandy, and you cannot ask yourself how did we get here? | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
History teachers as it was a failure of institutions, economics, | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
relationships, the rise of populism and nationalism. Because of that | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Madam Deputy Speaker, I was and still am inspired by Europe what is | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
achieved for all its faults and many of those was popular during the | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
referendum, the alternative it represented junior Cold War, the | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
alternative to Balkans water and the opportunities for hope it | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
represented. I understand and I respect the mass majority of those | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
who voted to leave, but my constituency voted overwhelmingly to | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
remain and because of my constituents, my conscience and the | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
facts I see before me, I will vote against the triggering of article 52 | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
nights of the amendment and also against the programme motion. No | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
doubt the Bill will go through and I will also seek to amend it. The | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
result will respect the referendum. -- Article 50. To stand up for the | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
48%, to stand up in the sovereign Parliament and challenge this | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
Government to its approach. The Government has no plan in contrast | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
to the plan set out by the First Minister of wheels. There is no | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
guarantee that Wales will not be worse off, no guaranteed of access | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
to the single market that is so crucial to business and jobs in my | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
constituency. The Government that has provided no assurances that | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
powers will not be taken away from Wales and I rates removed. A | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
Government that has given no reassurance to European nationals | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
living in my constituency. We are told the optimistic, and I have no | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
doubt that the British and Welsh people will find their way through | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
however difficult things become. We have done so sunny times before, but | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
I have to be honest, I fear that people concerns about immigration | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
are far from being resolved and will not be resolved by leaving the | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
European Union. I fear that many who felt left behind will continue to | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
feel left behind with the Government in place who is arguing some sort of | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
bargain basement economy and is running across to the United States, | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
throwing themselves before Donald Trump. I fear the purists will | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
continue to suffer and what then? Who will be blamed next? The Prime | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Minister said today that she is a reader, but the truth is she is a | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
follower. She is following the siren calls of a select group on her | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
benches to a reckless Brexit. Now she is following the belief of a | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
president with Fallon she does not share. -- with the values. There is | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
not just one route, and we have to think very hard about where we had. | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
The Honourable member for Nottingham North who is not here just now, | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
spoke earlier about the future and the big impact in this Bill for | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
future generations affecting the prosperity of her children and young | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
people, our young men and women and in the Highlands this is in | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
particularly sharp focus. For generations, we have had all young | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
people leaving the Highlands to seek their future. Until we have the | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
Scottish Parliament, until we had the engagement of the European Union | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
and the University of the Highlands and Islands is now celebrating 20 | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
years of EU corporation that has allowed us to have that very much | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
needed symbol in the Highlands, eight as a goal University campus in | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
Inverness. And that, amongst other things, our core operation with | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
Europe has helped address that decline. As have EU nationals. And I | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
was struck by the words of the Honourable member for Hampstead and | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
Kilburn earlier, because I agree that those people who come to our | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
country ads. They are our friends, neighbours and deserve to be treated | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
as such. Under the current direction of the UK Government, that all | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
changes. We are scrabbling about free deals, any deals. No Stone | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
unturned, no matter who is underneath it. Holding hands with | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Donald Trump, legitimising his exclusion and rising xenophobia. All | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
of this clearly saying it is warehouse for children, dogma before | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
doctrines and the alternative of a rock-hard Brexit is a change of | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
course. If not for the UK, then for our universities. For people but in | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
a blue difficult position, like those bubble in Gibraltar. But of | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
course is of the people of Scotland, who voted for a 62% to remain, 100% | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
of all the council areas. There is a choice of all the council areas. | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
There is the choice for this Parliament. | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
Has the member noticed a shiver running up the Labour front bench | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
looking for a spine to run up? I thank my honourable friend for his | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
contribution and I hope the Labour front bench and members will follow | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
the example of some of those I have referenced and vote against Article | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
50 tonight. If there are exceptions for borders with Ireland, exceptions | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
for Nissan, exceptions for the City, there is a choice. People in the | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
Highlands, people in Scotland, what hope for the future, they want to | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
see future conditions reflecting our nation, a bighearted, open-minded | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
cooperative future for all one they come from to contribute to a better | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
society and are valued. An enlightened future and not an | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
insulated Little Britain dragging us into the darkness. | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
I am going to vote against triggering Article 50 tonight. I am | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
going to do that as a patriots who believes in Britain and as a | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
Democrat who believes profoundly in parliamentary democracy. I will do | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
so in my view in the interests of my children and my constituents and my | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
country and in support of my convictions. I do not believe the | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
Brexit course we are now set on will make Britain a more prosperous, | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
fairer, more equal, tolerant country. I believe it will make our | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
politics meaner and it will make our country pool. All the optimism and | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
jingoism from the opposite benches there have been many terrific | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
speeches, I cannot credit the notion of the best way to make Britain a | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
successful trading nation is to withdraw from the most | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
sophisticated, global market the world has ever seen. I, believe | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
standing here in London and the heart of the most global, | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
cosmopolitan trading city, the world has ever seen, we will enhance our | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
chances of improving our economy by cutting of this city from the other | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
great cities around Europe. I cannot believe our economy will improve and | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
cannot believe the constituents I represent will be well served by | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
this and in fact if harder Brexit, rock-hard Brexit, now proposed comes | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
to pass I am convinced it will be constituents like mine in | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
working-class communities in this country who will be hit hardest. If | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
it is the alternative version she is Europe with, they will be hit harder | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
still. -- she is threatening Europe with. It is about the values that | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
are in jeopardy in our country and across the world. We are a liberal, | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
top, European Enlightenment economy and the society and those great | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
British values that Labour has spoken for for so long, are at risk | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
today. This Brexit vote began with immigration. The man in charge of it | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
said it was their baseball bat and they simply needed to pick up to | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
bring in the vote. It ended with the member for Rushcliffe saying the | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
Tory party is now an anti-immigrant party. It has ended with the Prime | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
Minister hand in hand with a racist president of the United States. Are | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
those my values or might values those of Angela Merkel who had to | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
ring him up to tell him he was wrong? I know when I think this | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
country stands on this issue and I know that unless we do think again | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
we are going down a very, very dangerous path. | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
Eight few brief points about this bill. Politics Europe is a net | :16:19. | :16:28. | |
beneficially -- Wales is a net beneficiary from the EU and in | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
liberal constituencies like mine this funding makes an impact the way | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
beyond what this figure implies. For rural communities the common | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
agricultural policy is the most important financial contribution the | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
EU makes. Yet the party opposite stand ready to switch off these | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
vital support mechanisms essential to our already isolated communities | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
with no indication of how they will make good the damage or even whether | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
they intend to. I would like to turn to spend a few sentences exploring | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
the increasingly divisive and most misused word freedom. It was take | :17:08. | :17:17. | |
back control dominated the league campaign's propaganda... The freedom | :17:18. | :17:27. | |
to and the freedom from an opposing and disputed understandings of | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
liberty that arguably underpin the political divide for centuries, | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
however, if we strip away much of the Leave campaign's divisive | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
rhetoric we find it is the dogmatic belief in a freedom from Brussels | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
that explains their opposition to the EU. In their view now that we're | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
free of them the sun will never set on our shores. | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
I think it is a great discourtesy you're not being listened to by some | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
in this chamber. I am finding her speech very good indeed. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
I am most grateful for that intervention. Many of us have waited | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
and we do not have many days to discuss this and many a witted as we | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
were required to in this chamber and the least we can do is listen to | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
each other's contributions. For -- from what I be truly free? Workers' | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
rates and employment protections, free from greater unity with our | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
neighbours, free from progress? Our so-called freedom from the EU will | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
undermine our freedom to, our freedom to achieve our potential. | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
Our businesses will not have the freedom to export and import the | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
goods rely on, our children will face greater challenges to work and | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
live in the countries we have freedom to enjoy unfettered. To take | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
back control we have given nothing but the illusion of control. -- we | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
have gained nothing but the illusion of control. My party will always | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
work in the national interest Wales and so my colleagues and I will vote | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
against this bill on the ground the Government has failed to ensure | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
Wales' national interests. In terms of our economy, the role of our | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
divorce legislation, these are disregarded in this modulation. -- | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
devolve legislation. I am confident the people of Wales did not vote for | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
property or for our economy to bear the brunt of a Brexit. -- did not | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
vote for poverty. One of the more bizarre aspects of | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
the discussion since the letter and has the way -- has been the way the | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
people who won the 11 have tried to explain what it means by reference | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
to those who lost. We are told even though it was not on the ballot | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
paper the vote is a vote to leave the single market because David | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Cameron suggested it might be. I did to your David Cameron suggest that | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
but I also heard every time he did so the Leave campaign accused him of | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
hyperbole and say it was not true. We have a real possibility in this | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
country now that the political rights may hijack that mandate from | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
the 23rd of June last year and use it to reconfigure our society and | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
economy in a way that most right minded people in this country would | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
find abhorrent. What stands between them and that outcome is this | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
Parliament. That is why it is so important we should not give this | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
Government a blank cheque, a carte blanche to do as it will as it tries | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
to interpret what happens next and that is why we should have fought | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
for the reasoned amendment and I can say we are not going ahead until you | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
explain the consequences of making that decision. I welcome very much | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
the support from other parties and many Labour members. I want to | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
implore the Labour front bench to reconsider their attitude on this. | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
Do not give the Tory Government a blank cheque on this matter, that is | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
not the historic responsibility of the opposition and it is not the | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
democratic requirement of the opposition. Please do not do it. | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
As I have been sitting here I heard from yet another worry EU national | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
in my constituency so does my honourable friend agreed this | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
Government really must sort this out and treat our friends and neighbours | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
with respect and dignity and listen to the Scottish Government. | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
I completely agree and that is another fine example of why we | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
should not get on the bus until we know the destination. On these | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
benches be determined not to do that but we also are determined to argue | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
what that destination should be. My colleagues have already talked about | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
the report published by the Scottish Government on Stockton's place in | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
Europe post Brexit and I would commend -- Scotland's place. I would | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
encourage colleagues to read that document. It may surprise you. It is | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
published by a Government that believes in an independent Scotland | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
and an independent nation within the EU and yet that document argues for | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
neither of those things. It is a massive compromise, an olive branch, | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
an attempt to make goodwill inside this post Brexit world let us try | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
and find unity and consensus. What that means is one size does not fit | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
all in a country the size, it means they should be differential | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
arrangement in Scotland as to what happens next for two very simple | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
reasons. One, the material consequences of a Brexit are | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
materially different in Scotland and, too, the attitude of the | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
electorate and the people of Scotland is different. You can do | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
that, the Government can do that, and accommodate the wishes of the | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
Scottish people and the Scottish Government and achieve a situation | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
where there is some sort of sense of things post Brexit and the views of | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
the Scottish people are respected. That brings the back and I want to | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
finish on what other colleagues have spoken about, this debate is not | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
without context in Scotland. In 2014 in the Scottish referendum we were | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
promised to things. One, as mentioned, the best way to keep our | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
European passport would be to vote to stay in the UK and secondly, we | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
were promised a vote to stay in the UK would not mean the views of | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
Scotland would be debited and absorbed into our bigger neighbour | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
to the south but they would be respected. -- views of Scotland | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
would be absorbed. Let us see in the month, if respect remains cashback | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
respect means respect. I am going to raise the speech limit | :23:56. | :24:07. | |
to four minutes. Madam Deputy Speaker, I hope I am | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
wrong, but I believe the decision the country took on the 23rd of June | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
will be the biggest self-inflicted wound since our disastrous | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
intervention in Iraq. This is the wounds that this festering and will | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
leave the UK permanently economically weaker, even once it | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
has healed. When Members of Parliament to believe a course of | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
action is going to be a catastrophe, I believe Members of Parliament have | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
a duty to hurry, a sale and oppose the Government, not to acquiesce. I | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
respect those who voted yes, that's back those who voted to leave. They | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
had genuine grievances about concerns or changes they see in our | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
society, indeed, concerns about immigration. Those four Brexit | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
claimed leaving the EU would address these concerns, stop the | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
cancellation of urgent hospital operations paid for, presumably, by | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
the tsunami of cash coming to the NHS post Brexit. They will improve | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
teacher shortages in schools and boost housing supply. It will not. | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
It will not do any of these things, in fact, it will make them worse. | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
And the Leave campaign's most prominent pledge to reduce | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
immigration substantially, I doubt either that will be achieved. Why | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
would it be? After all, the Prime Minister has spent many years | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
seeking to reduce the level of non-EU immigration and nothing | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
changed there. What leaving the EU will do with certainty is diminish | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
us as a nation. Reduce our influence and international standing and that | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
is already happened. Brexit has forced our Prime Minister, a | :26:01. | :26:09. | |
born-again hardline Brexit supporter to walk hand-in-hand with Donald | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Trump. While Canada and EU leaders condemned his plan our Prime | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
Minister's initial response was to say, not my business. And she | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
immediately offered him a state visit. Far quicker than any other US | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
president. I am sure this has nothing to do with the Prime | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
Minister's desperation to secure a trade deal, any deal, with the | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
protectionist Tromp. In the Are Of The Deal Tromp says the worst of | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
times often brings the best of times to make good deals. To translate the | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
worst of pounds for the UK is great the best of times for a deal for the | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
US. -- the worst of times for the UK. | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
I will not give way. The proposition is very clear. The people voted for | :27:03. | :27:15. | |
departure, not destination. Now the Government must give them a chance | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
to vote on the destination and with that guarantee, if it is forthcoming | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
tonight, I would vote with the Government. Is bestial thanks for | :27:23. | :27:32. | |
this extra minute, I really appreciate it. What we are voting on | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
tonight, it says on the paper that we are just voting on the Article 50 | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
Bill, but what we are voting on is consigning the UK to it with red, | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
white and blue Brexit. -- a special thanks. Anyone voting | :27:47. | :28:09. | |
on Article 50 tonight is consigning us to a red, white and blue Brexit | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
shaped by the Conservative Party and I could not in good conscience do | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
that and I cannot believe that other members on this side of the Chamber | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
could do that in good conscience. We are looking at the future, we're | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
looking 20 years into the future when my children will be young | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
adults, we're looking at a future where young people will not be able | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
to easily travelled to EU countries. They will not be able to marry | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
people from EU countries for fear that they will not be allowed to | :28:39. | :28:41. | |
live in the same country. They will not be able to afford the same | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
living standards that we have. There will be an erosion of the standards | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
of, for example, food quality that we have, because we are going to | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
have two, my son I standards in order to have traded deals with | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
countries like America. We're going to have a loss of farming in the UK. | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
In loss of farming into amenities like Wales and Scotland that rely | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
heavily on mats, that have a huge amount of EU Common agricultural | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
policy and the money coming in. And also that rely on the high standard | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
and the lack of ability of countries to import cheap foreign projects. We | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
are going to lose that. In 20 years' time, we are still going to be | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
negotiating trade deals. We do not have the capacity within this | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
Government, we do have the skills within the civil service, to | :29:31. | :29:32. | |
negotiate the trade deals that we need to negotiate in a short period | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
of time. They take a long time to come through. The economy will be | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
scuppered. We will see high levels of inflation, people struggling for | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
a living standards, a paper came out today that said in 2021, the lowest | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
earning quarter of households will have their income reduced by five to | :29:53. | :30:00. | |
15%. The highest earning households will have the income raised by 4%. | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
This is the Tory Brexit and this is only five years in the future. 20 | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
years in the future, things will be even worse. Productivity will be | :30:10. | :30:17. | |
further tanked. It is rubbish in the UK. Increases in productivity are | :30:18. | :30:26. | |
linked. My children will have to work more hours than I have had to | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
down the same wages. Nott I wonder if my honourable friend agrees with | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
me that Brexit is in fact an economic catastrophe waiting to | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
happen. I absolutely agree with my colleague and I think that there are | :30:42. | :30:44. | |
too many members in this House who have not done on work en masse. | :30:45. | :30:47. | |
There are too many members in this House that see the positives for the | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
elite few. They see those positive and don't the B return to the 80s, | :30:53. | :30:59. | |
the decimation of the Thatcher 's years that we saw. That is what is | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
coming. That is where we are heading. The validity plans amid | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
Tory Government. But we would get this plan to have low taxes, some | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
sort of tax haven. No country that is a tax haven is a country that | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
spends as much on public services as we do. They are all ones that spend | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
a very small amount of public services. Is this the way that the | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
Tories are suggesting we go? What will happen to the NHS if that is | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
the case? The great repeal Bill will show that this is a Government power | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
grab. We have been protected from the worst excesses of these right | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
wing governments by the European Union. They have protected our | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
workers' rights, they have protected the equalities, they have detected | :31:44. | :31:50. | |
climate change was for example. Now, the Tory Government and the | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
unelected Lords are going to be able to dictate to this country all of | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
the laws. They are not even owing to get the benefits we said we would | :31:58. | :32:04. | |
get. These Edwin Poots be exempt from state aids. The Government has | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
rules in relation to state aid. The worst thing of all, the very worst | :32:09. | :32:15. | |
thing about this, is that in 20 years' time when my children are | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
young adults, we will be a less tolerant, a more xenophobic society, | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
because instead of tackling the discrimination and prejudice this | :32:27. | :32:28. | |
House has pander to it. CHEERING | :32:29. | :32:36. | |
A referendum that Scotland did not want, a Government that Scotland did | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
not vote for and the result that does not reflect the wishes of the | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
people of Scotland. This Government, whose state policy was to keep as | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
the single market is taking us towards the Brexit door at breakneck | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
speed. Can I say, Madam Deputy Speaker, debentures opposite have | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
been waxing lyrical over the past couple of days about this wonderful | :32:56. | :32:58. | |
opportunity we have had to debate this issue since yesterday. Can I | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
remind them that they had to be taken to court to be given us this | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
opportunity to have this debate. Can remind them they spent an off a lot | :33:09. | :33:11. | |
of money trying to stop this debate happening in the first and can I | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
also remind them they had to be forced into coming up to with a | :33:16. | :33:21. | |
white paper. Suffice to say, the Government isn't handling Brexit | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
very well at all. Just like the disastrous policy to bazooka | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
austerity at all costs, this Government is pursuing Brexit at all | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
costs. We were told how Scotland should vote to keep Scotland in the | :33:37. | :33:42. | |
EU. The people of Scotland have not forgotten the promises they were | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
made on the other side must come up with answers. When David Cameron | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
gave his first keynote speech of the campaign, he talked about the UK | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
having one of the most stable economies in the world and this was | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
hugely attractive for investors. He took about as having real clout in | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
Europe. It David Cameron was right, we have gone from a country at the | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
centre of Europe to one in the periphery. From demonstrating | :34:09. | :34:11. | |
solidarity with our great allies in France and Germany and beyond to | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
begging for scraps from the table of President Donald Trump. A downward | :34:17. | :34:22. | |
spiral if ever there was one. It is not simply that we are seeking to | :34:23. | :34:26. | |
walk away from the table, but many members opposite seems intent on | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
burning our bridges on the way out. They seem to have forgotten the | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
language they have used it isn't higher debate about the EU nationals | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
who they think are a drain on this country, yet want to do deals with | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
their governments. What kind of negotiations are you going to enter | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
into on that basis? Tonight, I will be joining my excellent colleagues | :34:50. | :34:52. | |
and some of those on the Labour benches to vote against this Bill | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
and I will do so, because that is what the majority of my constituents | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
want, because Scotland was promised continued EU membership if we | :35:01. | :35:04. | |
remained in the UK and because this Government is attempting to leave | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
the EU in a haphazard and absolutely reckless way without regard to the | :35:09. | :35:14. | |
constitutional, social or economic consequences. We are not prepared to | :35:15. | :35:18. | |
let them take Scotland over that cliff with them. Thank you, Madam | :35:19. | :35:31. | |
Deputy Speaker and first of all me I offer you my congratulations on | :35:32. | :35:34. | |
juggling what has been an excessively busy day in this place. | :35:35. | :35:42. | |
I am proud to follow so many passionate and eloquent speakers on | :35:43. | :35:45. | |
both sides, although I do not necessarily agree with them all. As | :35:46. | :35:53. | |
my constituents from Somerset, home to that famous roads and the | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
Wellington Monument and Somerset cricket, as they know, I did | :35:58. | :36:02. | |
personally campaign to remain, but the majority of my constituents | :36:03. | :36:12. | |
voted to leave. By 52 to 48 and since then, I've been very clear | :36:13. | :36:15. | |
that I will stand by the views of the people and I will work to make | :36:16. | :36:20. | |
the very rest of this brave new opportunity... Of course, I will | :36:21. | :36:24. | |
give way. Does she agree with me that it is important that we respect | :36:25. | :36:30. | |
the vote that took place in May and that she is correctly doing that? | :36:31. | :36:39. | |
The point I'm making is that I do respect this. And I think it's very | :36:40. | :36:46. | |
important that we illustrate that we are abiding by the wishes of the | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
people. We would be pure parliamentarians indeed if we did | :36:52. | :36:57. | |
not stick to what we promised. To this end, I shall be supporting this | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
historic Bill, which was set in train the triggering of Article 50 | :37:02. | :37:05. | |
and our subsequent withdrawal from the EU. I want to express my respect | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
for all those people who did vote remains and I do appreciate their | :37:12. | :37:20. | |
concerns about 12 acknowledge that and I will be doing my very best as | :37:21. | :37:28. | |
well my colleagues in the size, daddy did outcome. -- to have a good | :37:29. | :37:37. | |
outcome. Waxing lyrical about the happy constitutional system that was | :37:38. | :37:40. | |
known in this country until 1972, it is now time to put our shoulders to | :37:41. | :37:50. | |
the wheel and make this work. The Secretary of State exiting the EU, | :37:51. | :37:53. | |
singling out one or two industries for fair treatment, particularly the | :37:54. | :37:56. | |
finance industry and in water industry. I would urge the same | :37:57. | :38:01. | |
fairness is given to the all important agricultural and | :38:02. | :38:04. | |
environmental sectors. With 25% of all businesses in the UK being in | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
the farming, food and ink sectors, this is essential. Of course, I will | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
give way. Does she agree with me that just as making sure that | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
agriculture is central to our negotiations, food standards as part | :38:21. | :38:23. | |
of that are absolutely critical as well. I thank my honourable friend | :38:24. | :38:29. | |
forgiving way and there are a whole raft of standards that I really | :38:30. | :38:32. | |
critical as we leave Europe and that we should embrace and harness those | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
standards that are already set and we should indeed tailor them to | :38:38. | :38:41. | |
improve them for a nation and is to make them much more suitable for the | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
way that we want operates. These industries of agriculture and food, | :38:48. | :38:51. | |
especially important in the south-west. Southwest form related | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
businesses turn over ?2.7 billion. More than any other area in the | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
country and agriculture in the Southwest employees 80,000 people. | :39:01. | :39:09. | |
In re formulating our life after the EU, I really urge that we consider | :39:10. | :39:16. | |
very carefully how going to move forward. There are opportunities to | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
develop a better framework, to develop an agricultural industry | :39:22. | :39:24. | |
inexplicably linked to the environment in a sustainable way | :39:25. | :39:28. | |
that after all we all depend on Friday, water and for our food, and | :39:29. | :39:34. | |
to build this into an industrial strategy, causing linking it with | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
our 25 year food and farming plans. Making it work for the economy and | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
also for our role, social fabric. So that we have a world that works | :39:44. | :39:49. | |
better for everybody. I urge the Secretary of State to harness the | :39:50. | :39:51. | |
shared environmental legislation that we already have from the EU and | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
that we take it on board and adapted to make it work better for | :39:57. | :40:01. | |
ourselves. That we keep our climate change commitments and I'm delighted | :40:02. | :40:04. | |
that the Prime Minister has already spoken out on this issue, that we | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
maintain as my honourable friend mentioned, our high standards of | :40:10. | :40:14. | |
food security, are high sense of welfare, our nuclear standards and | :40:15. | :40:16. | |
indeed we consider how we are going to deal with their seasonal workers, | :40:17. | :40:20. | |
so that I industries can storm forward. With understanding, | :40:21. | :40:27. | |
co-operation, consideration and demonstrating that we are listening | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
to the people. Not just in time to and even, but across the nation. I | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
am optimistic that we can build a better future for generations to | :40:38. | :40:39. | |
come and to this end, I should be voting with the Government to | :40:40. | :40:49. | |
trigger Article 50. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Our democracy is | :40:50. | :40:57. | |
representative. It is a great representative democracy. But the | :40:58. | :41:04. | |
reason this place will, and should, support this Article 50 Bill is that | :41:05. | :41:10. | |
prior to the referendum, we made a contract with the British people but | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
this place would abide by the result. And I think I would ask all | :41:16. | :41:18. | |
members who are thinking of voting against their second reading | :41:19. | :41:24. | |
together that due concern. It needs commitment by the Government and | :41:25. | :41:27. | |
many in the Opposition benches also agree to that and so I very much | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
look forward to supporting Article 50 tonight and I then look forward | :41:32. | :41:36. | |
to my right honourable friend the Prime Minister at negotiating over | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
at to a two-year period and in the end getting as good a deal as | :41:42. | :41:44. | |
possible, but if this place is that not a good deal, then the rules hold | :41:45. | :41:52. | |
no fear for many of us on these benches. No deal is better than a | :41:53. | :41:53. | |
bad deal. Your can I focus on a couple | :41:54. | :42:01. | |
inconvenient truths during the course of this debate? To the Labour | :42:02. | :42:09. | |
benches, I would suggest that all the talk of parliamentary democracy | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
and scrutiny is fine, but for those that were here in 2008 I do not | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
remember too much scrutiny when we ought the Government of the day | :42:22. | :42:29. | |
passed through the house the Lisbon Treaty. It was done very quickly and | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
in fact the Prime Minister of the day I do not think was even present | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
in the debate. For all the talk of parliamentary scrutiny is sacrificed | :42:41. | :42:43. | |
large chunks of our sovereignty that day and it is a great shame Labour | :42:44. | :42:48. | |
now suggesting they are the guardians of parliamentary democracy | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
when it was pretty thin on the ground at the time with the Lisbon | :42:54. | :42:57. | |
Treaty. I pay tribute to all the work the | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
honourable gentleman down on the campaign. When he talks about | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
democracy summer suit the result was too close, but does he agree with me | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
at Members of Parliament have won their parliamentary seats by one | :43:11. | :43:13. | |
vote not a single one would turn that down to come here and take | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
their seats like this and so they should accept the result because the | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
public have decided and we should enact that? | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
I very much agree with my friend. It is very clear the first past the | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
post system you abide by the results. | :43:33. | :43:38. | |
On the point of abiding by the result, well the honourable | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
gentleman recognise the challenges that sometimes colleagues on the | :43:45. | :43:47. | |
other side of the chamber will have an walking through the lobby with us | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
today and appreciate the efforts they have taken to honour the wishes | :43:52. | :43:56. | |
of their constituents? Absolutely. This is not going to be an easy | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
decision for Labour but at the end of the day a contract was made and | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
it should be respected. Can either gently point the finger at the SMP | :44:05. | :44:12. | |
-- can either the gently point the finger at the SNP because for all | :44:13. | :44:16. | |
the talk about wishing to remain within the EU, the bottom line as | :44:17. | :44:22. | |
had they won their independence referendum they would have left the | :44:23. | :44:36. | |
EU. The EU made that very clear. And what is more, there was no automatic | :44:37. | :44:41. | |
right of re-entry and they would have had to have taken on the euro | :44:42. | :44:49. | |
in that process. So for all the talk about being a good European, if it | :44:50. | :44:55. | |
was left to them Scotland would have left the EU. Can I just point then | :44:56. | :45:05. | |
the time but is allowed just be a few more inconvenient truths. I have | :45:06. | :45:12. | |
heard it said many times on the benches opposite about how we're | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
going to become a intolerant country, emigration has been raised | :45:19. | :45:21. | |
by several speakers with regard to us leaving the EU. I would suggest | :45:22. | :45:32. | |
to them by leaving the EU we will no longer discriminate against the rest | :45:33. | :45:35. | |
of the world which the present immigration policy does. They may | :45:36. | :45:44. | |
not like it in the SMP but it is a fact we cannot stop anybody coming | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
in from Europe but we do stop the rest of the world coming in to the | :45:49. | :45:54. | |
UK because no country in the Western world has an unlimited or | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
nonexistent immigration policy. So for all the talk on the opposition | :46:01. | :46:06. | |
benches, by leaving the EU, whatever the criteria we choose to guide our | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
immigration policy, it will be fair to the whole world, not just to a | :46:13. | :46:18. | |
particular region. No region will be discriminated against. And that is | :46:19. | :46:24. | |
the point, whatever the criteria, there will be fairness and you will | :46:25. | :46:27. | |
not be discriminated against depending on where you come from. | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
That is a further inconvenient truth. It has hardly been touched | :46:32. | :46:40. | |
upon in this debate. People suggest we are suddenly going to become an | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
economic backwater by leaving the EU. I can assure the house that if | :46:45. | :46:55. | |
you look at the growth rates across the western world the EU remained in | :46:56. | :47:01. | |
the global economic slow lane with shamefully high youth unemployment | :47:02. | :47:07. | |
to match. There is a world out there are growing much faster than the EU | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
and we need to embrace that future. So I very much look forward to us | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
winning this vote two nights and ask the Prime Minister to do what she | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
can to negotiate as good a deal as possible but not to be afraid to | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
fall back on WTO rules if there is a bad deal on the table because there | :47:30. | :47:40. | |
is a very bright future ahead of us. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
This has been an important debate with MPs from every region and | :47:46. | :47:53. | |
nation, towns and cities, rural, coastal, industrial and agricultural | :47:54. | :47:56. | |
communities having their say. So many contributions of quality it | :47:57. | :48:02. | |
would be impossible to mention them all. This is how Parliament is meant | :48:03. | :48:09. | |
to work. Members sent here to speak for their constituents and settled, | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
if not always agree, the way forward. Usually, MPs listen to the | :48:14. | :48:21. | |
arguments, so count of the impact of a decision on our constituents and | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
apply the values of our party and our hearts. Then we vote | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
accordingly. As the member for Ilford North said in his outstanding | :48:33. | :48:39. | |
speech, this decision is different. This decision follows a referendum. | :48:40. | :48:48. | |
And 52% voted to leave the EU. A close vote but a clear decision. We | :48:49. | :48:56. | |
accept the outcome of the referendum. Therefore, we must | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
consent to allow the process of leaving the European Union to begin. | :49:01. | :49:08. | |
And we will hold this Government to accounts every step of the way. Our | :49:09. | :49:18. | |
challenge to this Government through our amendments, is to enable this | :49:19. | :49:24. | |
house to have proper scrutiny, to publish regular reports, to allow | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
British MPs the same oversight as members of the European Parliament. | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
And to ensure a secure the position of EU nationals... In a minute. To | :49:35. | :49:42. | |
secure the position of EU nationals living in this country as a matter | :49:43. | :49:49. | |
of urgency. But, most important of all, to allow this house a | :49:50. | :49:55. | |
meaningful vote on our withdrawal agreement at the proper time. I give | :49:56. | :50:01. | |
way to the honourable gentleman. Given the many points made right | :50:02. | :50:04. | |
across these benches on the need for this bill to be amended, will the | :50:05. | :50:09. | |
honourable lady and her front bench friends be voting against the | :50:10. | :50:15. | |
destructive programme motion? -- restrictive programme motion. | :50:16. | :50:21. | |
I want this bill to proceed. Our amendments that will be discussed | :50:22. | :50:27. | |
next week are all reasonable request. I would appeal to those | :50:28. | :50:33. | |
members opposite, many of them who have spoken in support of a | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
parliamentary vote, I would appeal to all of those members opposite who | :50:38. | :50:43. | |
spoke in that way and to share our desire to see a constructive and | :50:44. | :50:48. | |
open process to consider voting in support of other amendments next | :50:49. | :50:56. | |
week. We are an outward looking, internationalist, pro-European | :50:57. | :51:02. | |
party. That will never, ever change. And that our determination to | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
collaborate with, to stand alongside and to work together, with our | :51:08. | :51:14. | |
European partners never be in doubt. These are British values. And I know | :51:15. | :51:20. | |
that to vote -- the vote to leave the European Union, as well as a | :51:21. | :51:25. | |
changing moods in other countries, has deepened the sense these values | :51:26. | :51:30. | |
we hold most dear are under threat. Tolerance, openness, cooperation, | :51:31. | :51:39. | |
solidarity. It is true the rise of the far right in Europe and the rise | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
of populism in the USA have left many of us who believe in those | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
values with an overwhelming sense of the political tide is against us. | :51:50. | :51:59. | |
But xenophobia, fear and isolationism are drowning out our | :52:00. | :52:04. | |
values of inclusion, hope and tolerance and it is more important | :52:05. | :52:11. | |
than ever to stand firm beside those values. Bigotry, fanaticism and | :52:12. | :52:18. | |
narrow-mindedness should have no place in our politics. There are | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
very few members of this house who do not feel any trepidation | :52:24. | :52:31. | |
whatsoever about the future. To deny the complexity, the risks to our | :52:32. | :52:37. | |
manufacturing and service sectors, the destruction and uncertainty that | :52:38. | :52:44. | |
doubtless lie ahead, is to hide from the truth. -- the this disruption. | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
The truth can be dealt with and overcome. It is precisely because | :52:50. | :52:55. | |
this process is so complex all of us need to complex to -- contribute to | :52:56. | :53:02. | |
resolving the issues we confront, and pretending these challenges do | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
not exist is negligent and the Labour Party will not neglect its | :53:07. | :53:10. | |
duty to challenge the Government when we think they are getting | :53:11. | :53:17. | |
Brexit wrong. I say to the Prime Minister, the best Brexit will never | :53:18. | :53:23. | |
come via a cliff edge. However much some of her backbenchers might wish | :53:24. | :53:30. | |
it. This must be a deal the consent of this house. If she and her | :53:31. | :53:36. | |
negotiators failed to achieve a deal worthy of our country they will not | :53:37. | :53:42. | |
achieve our consent. The Prime Minister must deliver the deal | :53:43. | :53:49. | |
claims that she can. MPEG and free trade, she said, Paris free trade. | :53:50. | :53:56. | |
-- impediment free trade. -- tariff free trade. A loving British | :53:57. | :53:59. | |
businesses becoming benefits to enjoy. -- delivering British | :54:00. | :54:09. | |
businesses. That is a good starting point but for the Labour Party that | :54:10. | :54:15. | |
aspiration is not enough. The Brits and the Labour Party wants to build | :54:16. | :54:18. | |
is confident in its place in the world. We want a Briton way outside | :54:19. | :54:26. | |
the EU we can protect British jobs by securing a deep trade deal with | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
the EU and remember, whatever deals we reach with other nations in the | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
future, an agreement with our closest neighbours will always be | :54:38. | :54:44. | |
the most important deal we do. Where we protect British citizens by | :54:45. | :54:49. | |
maintaining cooperation on justice and security we protect British jobs | :54:50. | :54:54. | |
by securing a good transitional deal and the Labour Party will use every | :54:55. | :54:59. | |
means possible to bring about the best Brexit for Britain. We will | :55:00. | :55:06. | |
fight for a future where business and industry thrived. Especially as | :55:07. | :55:14. | |
the member for Backley and spend, and a ROM, Sedgefield, the member | :55:15. | :55:22. | |
for Wirral South said, especially in our proud regions. We are in the | :55:23. | :55:28. | |
country of Brunel, Rosalind Franklin, Alan Turing, Michael | :55:29. | :55:32. | |
Faraday, Tim Peake. Our engineers and scientists and academics, | :55:33. | :55:38. | |
creatives, they need to flourish in this workshop of the world. And | :55:39. | :55:44. | |
Labour will work to ensure after Brexit our future as an ingenious, | :55:45. | :55:51. | |
innovative, imaginative and inspiring nation grows and is never | :55:52. | :56:00. | |
diminished. The British people voted to take back control. Control over | :56:01. | :56:06. | |
their lives and the Labour Party understand the anger expressed | :56:07. | :56:14. | |
through the vote to leave. Lope, lack of opportunities. -- low pay. | :56:15. | :56:20. | |
Insecure work and sit -- uncertain futures. A feeling of being remote | :56:21. | :56:25. | |
from decision making in Brussels. To all who voted for those reasons, I | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
say we hear you. Labour will stand up throughout the Brexit | :56:33. | :56:36. | |
negotiations for those who may have voted to leave but who did not vote | :56:37. | :56:42. | |
to be poorer. We will stand up, too, for those who voted to Remain. 48% | :56:43. | :56:49. | |
of voters cannot be marginalised or ignored. | :56:50. | :56:58. | |
Many, although the exact the outcome of the referendum, do not see a | :56:59. | :57:06. | |
prosperous future. The political value dot-mac battle now, much of | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
the honourable gentleman would like to run the battle just enjoyed, | :57:12. | :57:18. | |
centres on the times and the country we aspire to become. Labour is ready | :57:19. | :57:23. | |
to take on those who offer MTV assurance based on nothing but their | :57:24. | :57:29. | |
own dogmatic conviction. Brexit marks to work for all our | :57:30. | :57:36. | |
communities. -- Brexit must work for all our communities. Especially the | :57:37. | :57:40. | |
most disadvantaged and my party will step up and make sure the Government | :57:41. | :57:49. | |
fulfils its duty. As a former president of the United States, a | :57:50. | :57:52. | |
former President of the United States, Franklin D Roosevelt said to | :57:53. | :57:59. | |
the Democrats, ours must be a party of liberal thought, of planned | :58:00. | :58:05. | |
action, of enlightened international outlook, and of the greatest good to | :58:06. | :58:13. | |
the greatest number of citizens. And this is how we must precede! Not | :58:14. | :58:21. | |
fully 52%, not for the 48%, but for 100% of the people of Britain. | :58:22. | :58:25. | |
CHEERING Madam Deputy Speaker, may I start by | :58:26. | :58:42. | |
paying tribute to all the right honourable and honourable members | :58:43. | :58:44. | |
who have contributed to what my honourable friend, the member for | :58:45. | :58:49. | |
Sleaford and night hike in aim excellent maiden speech rightly | :58:50. | :58:57. | |
called an historic debate. Members of both sides of the house, | :58:58. | :59:01. | |
supporters of both leave and remain have spoken with passion and | :59:02. | :59:05. | |
sincerity and have been some outstanding contributions and | :59:06. | :59:08. | |
several times over the last two days, we have seen this House as is | :59:09. | :59:16. | |
very best. A wide range of issues has been raised over the course of | :59:17. | :59:19. | |
this debate and I will seek to address these in the time available | :59:20. | :59:23. | |
to me, but I hope that honourable members will forgive me if I do not | :59:24. | :59:28. | |
address everything a point made by every single Speaker. Let me be | :59:29. | :59:38. | |
clear, what we are considering is the most straightforward possible | :59:39. | :59:43. | |
Bill, a Bill which necessary is to implement the referendum result and | :59:44. | :59:47. | |
respect the judgment of the Supreme Court. It is positively not a | :59:48. | :59:51. | |
vehicle for determining the terms of the broader negotiations that will | :59:52. | :59:56. | |
follow. This Bill follows one of the largest democratic exercises in this | :59:57. | :00:01. | |
country's history. As pointed out by many memorable members, an issue | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
that has been central to political debate in this country for decades | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
was finally put to the people of the United Kingdom and the people made | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
their decision. We have heard repeatedly from honourable members | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
on both sides of this debate and on both sides of the house that they | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
fully respect and accept the referendum and its outcome. Today is | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
an opportunity for all of us to demonstrate that respect by | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
supporting this small, but important, Bill. In the time I have | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
available,... I will not give way, I hope you will forgive me. A number | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
of themes emerged during the course of the debate. First of all, the | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
referendum itself. Parliament voted overwhelmingly to put this to the | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
people. We must trust decision. The must be no attempt to remain inside | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
the EU. No attempt to rejoin it through the back door and second | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
referendum. As a fuel honourable members have urged. This country has | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
voted to leave the European Union and it is the duty of the Government | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
and of this House to make sure that we do precisely that. In the time | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
available, I cannot. Secondly, I would like to touch on the issue of | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
engagement with the devolved administrations, which has figured | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
strongly in this debate. Before and throughout the referendum campaign, | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
it was clear that the outcome would apply to the Hall of the United | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
Kingdom and that is what we are committed to deliver. We are | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
committed to securing the best deal for the call of the United Kingdom | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
in the interests of all of its constituent nations and regions. My | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
right honourable friend the Prime Minister has made clear her | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
determination to uphold and strengthen the union. We will | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
continue to engage with the devolved administrations are out the | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
established committees. We understand that there are unique and | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
diverse interests across the UK, in particular... I do not know why the | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
honourable gentleman does not understand, I am not taking his | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
intervention. In particular, Mr Speaker, we are wholly committed to | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
the Belfast at agreement and successors. We will work with the | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
Irish Government to maintain the Common travel area on the island of | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
Ireland are not return to the Borders of the past. We have | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
received under grateful to these submissions from the Scottish and | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
Welsh governments, which are being considered. That said, the Supreme | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
Court was clear in its judgment that triggering Article 50 is a reserved | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
matter for this Parliament. And that the devolved nations do not have a | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
veto. We have been clear that we will work very carefully to ensure, | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
as powers are reverted Brussels back to Britain, Iraq powers are returned | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
Westminster and the rate powers are passed to the devolved | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. -- the correct | :03:30. | :03:40. | |
powers. EU citizens working and living in the United Kingdom, this | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Government values and appreciate the role that they play in our economy | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
and in working in 80s. We are determined to provide as much | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
certainty as we can as soon as we can. That guaranteeing UK citizens | :03:54. | :04:04. | |
rates in the EU and in the UK is one of our immediate objectives in the | :04:05. | :04:17. | |
upcoming negotiations. To the EU citizens were living, studying and | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
working in the UK I say this, you will still be welcome in this | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
country, as we trust our citizens will continue to be welcome in | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
years. Moving on to the forthcoming negotiations, I want to repeat, that | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
whilst we are leaving the EU, we are not turning our back on Europe. | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
Point of order. What is the point in the Government coming here, reading | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
out a written statement to the house are not listening to interventions | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
from honourable members who have legitimate questions to ask the | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
Government benches. These debates will run for a long time to come, | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
but that is not a matter for the chair. Minister. Thank you, Mr | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
Speaker. I want to repeat their wealthy are leaving the EU, were not | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
turning our backs on Europe. We will be seeking a broad new partnership | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
outside of the single market with the EU. Including a bold and | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
ambitious trade agreement. We will retain strong relationships with our | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
European partners as we work together on issues such as security, | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
justice and migration. The honourable gentleman is reading an | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
excitable Zebedee. It has been made clear to him that the minister is | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
not giving way. We have made clear commitments to protect workers' | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
rights and we will ensure that the keep pace. All the workers' rights | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
that are enjoyed under EU legislation will be preserved by the | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
great repeal Bill and will be brought across into UK law. Let me | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
say this also, we have no plans to withdraw from the... Euratom and the | :06:10. | :06:22. | |
EU share a common institutional framework, including European court | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
of justice, decision making of the council. Making them uniquely | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
legally joined. Triggering Article 50 therefore also entails giving | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
notice to leave Euratom. The nuclear industry is of key strategic | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
importance to the UK and we have been clear that this does not affect | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
our intention to maintain close and effective arrangements relating to | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
civil nuclear operation, safeguards and safety with Europe and the rest | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
of the world. Let me move on to the role of Parliament. My right | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
honourable friend the Prime Minister set out our plan for the United | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
Kingdom's withdrawal in her speech at Lancaster house and she has | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
confirmed that Parliament will have its say on the final deal we achieve | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
with the European Union by putting that deal to a vote of houses. There | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
has already been extensive scrutiny in both houses and we will be | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
publishing our white paper tomorrow before a committee stage. It is | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
however it entirely separate from this Bill, which is simply about | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
giving Government the power to trigger the process of exit from the | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
EU in accordance with the instructions we have received from | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
the people of this country. There has already been, there has also | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
been much debate over the last two days about the many opportunities | :07:46. | :07:57. | |
that leaving the EU for the UK. As my right honourable friend the Prime | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
Minister has said, we will be an outward facing, bald and global | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
country, seeking ambitious trade deals, forging new friendships and | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
consolidating existing partnerships and we will remain a tolerant and | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
open country. The triggering of Article 50 will start the process of | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
our withdrawal from the European Union, during which this House will | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
have plenty of opportunities to debate and play a crucial role in | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
scrutinising the great repeal Bill and related bills to come. My right | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
honourable friend has set out a detailed plan for building a new | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
partnership between an independent United Kingdom and the European | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Union in years to come and let me say how much I agree with the right | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
honourable lady. Let me say how much I agree with the honourable lady | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
that people have made their decision and now we must strive for an | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
outcome that as she says, works not just for the 52% or the 48%, but for | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
the 100%. All of us in this House must work together in the national | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
interest, but let me repeat, tonight we are not voting on the outcome, | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
nor on the wider issues, but simply to start the process. It is | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
absolutely essential that Parliament now move quickly, with a timetable | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
but this House has already voted for in December to trigger Article 50 by | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
the end of March. In short, Mr Speaker, this is a straightforward | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
Bill that delivers on the promise made by the people of the United | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
Kingdom to honour the outcome of the referendum. We must trust the people | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
and I commend this builds a house. Order. The quest meant is that the | :09:50. | :10:04. | |
amendment be made, ayes. Clear the lobby. | :10:05. | :10:16. | |
-- As many as are of the opinion, say "aye". To the contrary, "no". | :10:17. | :12:21. | |
Question is at the amendment be. As many as are of the opinion, say | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
"aye". To the contrary, "no".. Tellers for the ayes... | :12:31. | :18:30. | |
The ayes to the right, 100. The noes to the left 336. | :18:31. | :23:30. | |
The ayes to the right, 100. The noes to the left, 336. So the noes have | :23:31. | :23:45. | |
it. The noes habit. Unlock! The question is that the bill be now | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
read a second time. As many as are of the opinion, say "aye". To the | :23:51. | :24:00. | |
contrary, "no".. Division! Clear at the lobby! | :24:01. | :26:53. | |
The question is the Bill now be wrote a second time. As many as are | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
of the opinion, say "aye". To the contrary, "no".. Tellers for the | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
ayes. Tellers for the noes. | :27:05. | :27:17. | |
I say to the little baby, don't be sheepish about it, the little baby | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
is welcome to come in. There is no problem. | :27:24. | :27:35. |