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raise this with the Minister then. The secretary of state for exiting | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the European Union, secretary David Davis. With permission I wish to | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
make a statement on the Government plans to exit the European Union. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Today we are publishing a government white paper on the exit and a new | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
partnership with the European Union. The Government has made clear it | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
will honour the choice made by the people of the United Kingdom. On the | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
23rd of June 2016, the United Kingdom will leave the European | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
Union. Note that is wrong. By April of, on the 23rd of June 2016 the | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
people voted for the leave of the European Union. This house... We | :00:43. | :00:56. | |
have two years of this to go don't worry. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
LAUGHING This house is currently considering | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
a straightforward bill which would give the Prime Minister at the | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
authority to trigger article 50 of the European Union to begin the | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
negotiations of our exit. It is not a bill about whether or not we leave | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
the EU or if we do so but about implementing a decision taken of the | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
UK. We always have said we would eat out these aims and seek to build a | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
national consensus were possible. This paper sets those aims and the | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
thinking behind it. It confirms the Prime Minister's vision of a truly | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
global UK and Anna Bush 's future relationship with the European | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Union. This is based on the 12 principles which will guide the | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
governments. Taking control of our own laws and statue book. | :01:54. | :02:11. | |
Maintaining the Common travel area. And the rights of UK nationals | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
living in the European Union. Protecting and enhancing existing | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
workers' rights and ensuring free trade with European markets was | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
forging a new strategic partnership with the European Union including a | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
bold and ambitious agreement and a beneficial customs agreement. | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
Forging free trade agreements with others across the world. Ensuring | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
the United Kingdom is the best place and cooperating against crime and | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
terrorism and finally delivering a smooth and orderly exit from the | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
European Union. These amount to one goal, a new positive and | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
constructive partnership with Britain and the European Union that | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
works in our mutual interest. All of them are qubits lets me highlight | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
some specific issues its reiterate our firm view that it is in the UK | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
interest for the European Union to succeed politically and | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
economically. That cannot be said to firmly. We want the EU to succeed | :03:18. | :03:27. | |
politically and economically. We want to work to an outcome for our | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
mutual benefit, we recognise the European union has principles for | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
freedom so United Kingdom will leave the single market, instead we seek a | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
new strategic partnership including a bold and ambitious free trade | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
agreement and a mutually and vicious trade agreements that insurers | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
free-trade and services as much as possible. That'll be to our mutual | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
benefit. As the white paper notes, we export billions of goods to the | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
EU while import billions from the EU every year. It also sets out how | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
after we leave the UK will look to increase its trade with the | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
fastest-growing export markets in the world. It cannot sign a new | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
trade deals were being a Member, we are preparing the ground freight | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
which means updating membership of the WTO. Modern free-trade | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
agreements are to stop disputes on both sides of the white paper | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
examines the precedence of this area and makes clear we will negotiate an | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
arrangement that respects UK sovereignty, in terms of clarity and | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
certainty will recognise the need to provide it wherever we can during | :04:45. | :04:56. | |
the period when and is inevitable. This legislation will mean the | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
repeal of the communities act or converting the existing EU law into | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
domestic law. That means the position we start from, a Common red | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
glittery framework is unprecedented. The negotiation will not be bringing | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
two divergent systems together, it is about finding the best way of the | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
comments to the Mac for the current system to trade with and operate in | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
each other's markets to continue and we leave the European Union. The | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
white paper also sets up that we will take control of our own laws, | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
to ensure that we can control the number of people coming to the | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
United Kingdom from the European Union. In a jurisdiction of the | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
European Court of Justice, the UK will come to an end. ... I have | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
stood at this dispatch box before and said there will be a number of | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
votes on policy to that earned the white paper makes clear that we will | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
bring forward separate legislation in areas such as customs and | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
immigration. Delivering smooth and mutually beneficial exits and | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
avoiding a disruptive cliff edge which will be the key. A | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
never-ending transitional status is emphatically not what we seek. But a | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
phase process of process of implementation of new process of | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
immigration controls, custom systems, the way we operate and | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
incorporate on civil justice matters and legal frameworks of business | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
will be necessary for both sides. As the white paper says, this time may | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
vary. One of the most important actors in Global Affairs, we will | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
continue to work with the European Union to preserve the security, | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
fight crime and terrorism and uphold justice. We must work more closely, | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
not less in these areas. We will continue to seek to build a national | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
consensus so we are talking another time to business, civil society, | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
public services, representatives. We have engaged the devolved | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
administrations and whilst part of the UK can have a veto, we are | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
determined to live an outcome which delivers for the whole of the | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
country. We continue to analyse the outcome of Brexit to shape our | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
negotiating position and to conclude, the referendum result was | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
not a vote to turn our back on Europe but was a vote of confidence | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
in the UK's ability to succeed in the world that our best days are | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
still to come, whatever the outcome of the negotiation we seek a more | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
outward looking and ferry UK that works for everyone. The white paper | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
is available on the Government website. | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
Mr Speaker, Norman Underwood thank the secretary of state that the | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
statements is nothing. A week ago the Prime Minister said there would | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
be a white paper, yesterday she said there would be a white paper | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
tomorrow and the white paper has not been delivered until four minutes | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
ago so we can meaningfully ask questions. For months we have been | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
calling for a plan. That was refused on the basis they would not be a | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
running commentary. Then the government agreed a plan but | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
delivered a speech. Then they were forced to concede under pressure | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
there would be a white paper. No white paper produced too late in the | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
day for us to ask meaningful questions here. That is completely | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
unacceptable. And the first fight about Brexit is great player, it is | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
a fight about giving this house a meaningful role in holding the | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
government to account. The government has been forced by the | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
supreme court to involve parliament at all, it has been forced to | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
produce a white paper and to concede a final vote. Before Christmas the | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
Secretary of State refused to confirm there would be a vote in | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
this house at the end of this exercise. The decision to leave was | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
taken on June 23 but what matters now is the terms agreed under | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
article 50 and the nature and extent of our new relationship with the EU. | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
The Prime Minister adopted a risky approach, with gaps and | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
inconsistencies and an unacceptable fallback position. We need time to | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
debate this white paper properly and we need a vote on its content. And | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
on the question of vote, flicking through the white paper IC at | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
paragraph 1.12 is all that is said is that the final deal that is | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
agreed will be put to a vote in both houses. We have amendments down next | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
week seeking a meaningful vote. A vote in this house before a vote is | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
taken in the European Parliament otherwise all honourable members | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
will have to watch on their screens as the European Parliament debates | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
are deal before we get to express any views on it. That is completely | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
unacceptable and is demeaning of this house. Finally Mr Speaker I | :10:35. | :10:45. | |
note there is nothing that progress is the position of EU nationals in | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
this country. We have been calling for unilateral action to be taken | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
before article 50 is triggered and yet the white paper disappoints on | :10:54. | :11:03. | |
that front. Let me start with the purpose of the white paper, that is | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
to inform all the debates, not just today, in the coming two years. The | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
shadow Brexit spokesman is exactly right, what matters above all else, | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
not the Labour Party or whatever, what matters are the terms we get | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
for this negotiation. That is about the future of Britain, that is what | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
this has should care about, first and foremost. Secondly he talks | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
about the meaningful vote, I have not yet understood that. I have | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
voted thousands of times in this house and I have never yet voted on | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
something I considered not meaningful. Every vote in this house | :11:47. | :11:56. | |
is meaningful. And there will be a meaningful vote at the end, he makes | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
much of the time it took. I was saying for a long time to the select | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
committee that it was inconceivable, the words are used, that we would | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
not have a meaningful vote at the end of this process. His last point | :12:11. | :12:21. | |
on the care of EU nationals, I also make you have got a track record of | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
defending the interests of people who are under pressure and indeed | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
the last thing pretty much the leader of his party did was go with | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
me to Washington to get lost grip out of Guantanamo Bay. I am not | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
going to throw people out of Britain and for him to suggest that is | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
outrageous. But let me say this, the European Union nationals I want to | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
see you have all the rights they currently have. But I also would sue | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
British citizens have their rights. And we owe a moral responsibility | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
and moral dared to EU nationals but also a moral and legal threats to | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
citizens of Britain abroad and we will protest vote. -- I will see. Mr | :13:01. | :13:09. | |
Speaker, I deeply welcome my right on and friend's statement and also | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
the white paper which is most emphatically in our national | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
interest. Tomorrow the heads of government of the 27 other member | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
state will convene in Malta and they propose to make a declaration about | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
their vision for the future of Europe. President task's letter of | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
January 31 is not bode well. Will my right honourable friend encourage | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
the 27 -- President Tusk. By promoting ever closer and more | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
centralised political union they are creating the very circumstances | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
which they claim they want to avoid and they are depriving themselves of | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
the trust of the other citizens who they claim to represent? The | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
effectively going in the wrong direction. Boyce my right honourable | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
friend is labelled this issue for 20 years at least, and he has always | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
said and honourable, straightforward and insightful view of the EU. On | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
what we have said is that we are going to be full members until the | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
moment we leave that means responsible members until the moment | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
we leave. That means we will exercise our influence on what we | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
think is the best interest of the EU until the moment we leave. Because | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
we want to see a European Union strong, stable and effective. In | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
this time of difficult international relations we need them as an anchor | :14:40. | :14:48. | |
and that is what we will pursue. I thank the Minister for his | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
statement. He is not a man of few words but I a man of few meaningful | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
words. This is just another panicked U-turn. It is not much of an | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
achievement to be the second most chaotic party in this chamber when | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
it comes to matters of Europe. They have only had seven months to pull | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
it together and yet we only read it one minute before the minister got | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
on his feet. The secretary of state is more experience than me, but it | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
is very striking we get a white paper after the second reading and | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
two sitting days before the committee stage. We got this before | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
he got on his feet. The latter respect to Parliament we need to | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
question him on it but I find it an astonishing disrespect to Parliament | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
and one that the secretary of state would not put up with were he not on | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
the front page. But what I find surprising is what are they afraid | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
of? They do not want to give us the opportunity for scrutiny, they do | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
not have the courage of their convictions. Maybe Mr Speaker the | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Secretary of State will tell us that since Scotland voted to remain, is | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
the red, white and blue Brexit, civil servants having to pull | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
together their approach and the secretary of state has said that | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
legislators will face the Mexican changes to the statement. Does that | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
mean that a legislative consent motion will now be required but not | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
-- significant changes. This is a mess and it is going to have an | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
impact on each and every one of us and people deserve better. Let me | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
start by saying that we have been in the EU for 40 years, this is that | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
reversing, not reversing but amending and dealing with 40 years | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
of accumulated policy and law. As for the second reading, he is | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
talking about the second reading of a bill to trigger the process, to do | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
no more than put into effect the British people's decision of June | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
last year. So I cannot see how he thinks that the white paper being | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
after the second reading is problematic at all. There will be | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
any number, any number of occurrences in this house when the | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
50 odd SNP members will have a chance to hold the government to | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
account, to make their views known on policy, to put the interests of | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
Scotland forward, whether it is with the great repeal Bill or other | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
legislation that follows from that. I do not think he can complain about | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
matters of democracy in this respect. Whatever his extensive | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
interest in the statement which I'm keen to come, that, to do so will | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
require relative from back and front benches alike, especially in light | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
of the subsequent business, which is very well subscribed and to which I | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
have to have regard. If we could have short questions and answers | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
that would help. Can I ask first of all commend the paper to my right | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
honourable friend. The complaints about it not being detailed enough | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
on about it only coming at the last moment are of course nonsense. The | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
Prime Minister set out most of the elements of this in her 12 point | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
speech so those who missed that need to go back and see that reflected in | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
this comment. But can I ask my right honourable friend the key concern in | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
areas like academia and the high added value low-volume areas are | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
that they get a much earlier statement about how flexible the | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
kind of permit system would be and I wonder if my right honourable friend | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
would take it a little further and say that these errors themselves | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
will see next to no change. It is below value and high-volume areas | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
that we need to control? If you were not here at the start you should not | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
be standing, that is an established part of proceedings. My right | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
honourable friend is another member of this house who has spent a long | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
time on this issue. The issue of migration is my job as it were to | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
bring the decision back to this house. It is not my job to make the | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
decisions thereafter but what is clear to me is that the policies of | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
controlling migration after our exit would be ones designed to further | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
our national interest. Britain is a science superpower, Britain is a | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
leading scientific centre in Europe and as a result we will want to | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
encourage petition for talent. In finance, and in engineering and | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
medicine, all the areas where there are skills that are at a premium we | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
will want to encourage the attraction of those people. So we do | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
not expect a policy to have any deleterious effect on industry at | :19:48. | :19:59. | |
all. The Secretary of State said we would have meaningful votes on a | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
whole range of things. How can it be that paragraph 8.43 commits us to | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
leaving the customs union, which will have a devastating effect on | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
manufacturing without any analysis or impact assessment? There has been | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
considerable analysis of this. They we just finished the point. The | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
point that is made in the policy paper is that we want to have the | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
customs grimmer. That will impinge directly as a result of the free | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
trade area and if we are successful in the free trade agreement and get | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
low or near zero tariffs, we should succeed in getting the customs | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
agreement which reflect that and makes it very straightforward to | :20:43. | :20:51. | |
continue trading. Can I say that I think we would be wise to get to the | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
end of the negotiations before we draw conclusions on what we have | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
come to. That would be the meaningful way, those who use the | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
word meaningful for times and speech are being rather meaningless. The | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
key point is that what we're after is what in these circumstances the | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
EU members will be after, which are arranged with that before then, | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
before us and before world. Here's exactly right and that is the aim of | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
our policy. He is right also that and be entered the house will be | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
able to hold the government to account and make the meaningful | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
decision about the policy. That will not be the only element, there will | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
be many points along the way that will debate everything from customs | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
grimaced through to immigration and other policies which arise out of | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
this process. And the house will be very, very much in control. My | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
honourable friend for Cockburn and St Pancras in the 60 seconds he had | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
to look through the white paper was spot on to zone in on the | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
obfuscation on page 11 about the lack of a meaningful vote for | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
Parliament at the end of the process. There is no point in having | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
a vote after he's already signed off with the EU, treating Parliament as | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
some sort of afterthought. So can he rule out now the government showing | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
such contempt for Parliament? This is now my sixth statement to this | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
house in less than six months. Let me finish. The house will have the | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
opportunity to vote on any number of pieces of legislation before we get | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
there and it'll have the vote at the end to decide whether or not it's | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
acceptable. On page 49 of the white paper, the | :22:36. | :22:47. | |
Government says we have an open mind on how we implement the new | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
arrangements with the European Union. For the avoidance of doubt, | :22:51. | :23:02. | |
will the Secretary of State confirm... He will see we exclude | :23:03. | :23:16. | |
ourselves... Can I welcome the principles in the white paper in | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
particularly protecting and enhancing workers' rights, would he | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
confirmed during the negotiations that there is nothing to negotiate | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
with other EU countries on workers' rights and protection because we | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
will be protecting them because they are already in our law and we must | :23:32. | :23:41. | |
stop the people telling us that this will be threatened. She is | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
absolutely right. The approach of the Government is to maintain every | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
single piece of protection that is, which is incidentally much better | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
than most European countries. And also to enhance that. Can I urge the | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
Secretary to give priority to the matters in chapter six of the white | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
paper in securing the rights of EU nationals, I have in mind one of my | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
constituents who was in EU national and for many years she has been | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
receiving a treatment for cancer and she wants to know if she will | :24:19. | :24:28. | |
continue to have access to the NHS. It is not just residents write or | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
talk about but access to health care. Thank you Mr Speaker, the end | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
is not yet and the best is yet to be, which is what any presbyteries | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
on the Ulster bench will welcome. Can I say I welcome the white paper | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
that he has produced today and particularly the three chapters | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
refer to the union, strengthening the relationship with the Republic | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
of Ireland and the other chapter on combating terrorism. Is he familiar | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
with the commentary of Ray Bassett, the former Irish ambassador and | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
Irish diplomat who made it clear that Ireland's position should be on | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
forging a new relationship with the United Kingdom because the other 26 | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
parts of the European Union don't listen to Ireland. I'm not familiar | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
with the commentary he talks about but I welcome his views. It has been | :25:26. | :25:35. | |
one of the most important part of the preparation which has been | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
striking the relationship with Ireland which ensures we underpin | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
the peace process, maintain stability, keep an open border and | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
so on and I think it is incumbent on us because the Irish government in | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
the most difficult position and that is what we are doing. The white | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
paper paragraph eight point 43 makes it clear that we want to leave the | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
customs union so we can negotiate free-trade agreements around the | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
world, the actual position is if we leave the customs union then we will | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
be bound by an external tariff unless we negotiate otherwise, is | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
that the correct position? And WTO rules, this is the most favoured | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
negotiation but you are allowed to make free-trade agreements at | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
whatever level you seek. One of the things we seek to do is to ensure as | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
many of the existing free-trade agreements carry straight over so | :26:39. | :26:47. | |
that will also be lower. Given the old age dependency ratio and it's | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
important for the public finances and the absence of any concrete | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
information of paragraph 5.9 of this white paper, can the Secretary of | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
State inform us what he anticipates the level of net migration to be | :27:01. | :27:08. | |
across future years? It'll be a sustainable level, that is the | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
policy but the point to understand here is that those decisions you | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
make in a year by year basis because what is no part of the policy to | :27:17. | :27:27. | |
make the British economy suffer, or any of the above, it is perfectly | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
proper that the Government should control any migration property and | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
not leave open ended. The solution to the problem is she cites is not | :27:36. | :27:44. | |
just managing the problem. When the Government says its notice on the | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
European Union under Article 50, will the Government take that | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
opportunity to frame the negotiation by making it clear that we expect to | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
agree the framework of our future relationship as a specifies an | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
article 50 otherwise we are negotiating in the dark about the | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
divorce arrangements and indeed I don't think the European Union will | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
be have a sincere cooperation. What my right honourable friend conferred | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
tee refers to is the need to negotiate in parallel the ongoing | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
departure relationship and article 50 refers to having regarding the | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
ongoing relationships you cannot include negotiation departure before | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
concluding the ongoing arrangements. I've made this point already, I | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
think the Prime Minister has made the point already to a number of her | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
opposite numbers around the European Union, this'll be the first issue | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
that we need to resolve at the beginning of negotiations. Will | :28:53. | :29:01. | |
Parliaments get a vote on the Government's intended final deal | :29:02. | :29:03. | |
before they deal is struck with the European Union? I suspect the final | :29:04. | :29:17. | |
vote here... Their ratification process is much lower than ours. I'm | :29:18. | :29:26. | |
extremely pleased that the white paper is being published and I would | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
like to say thanks to him and his team as well for listening to | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
honourable friends on the side of the House in our calls for a white | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
paper, but would heal so join in sending a message to my constituents | :29:38. | :29:45. | |
at their views. Willie also clarify if they will report for me back to | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
the House? I'm not sure what well overall friend means by former | :29:53. | :30:02. | |
reporter this is my sixth statement to the House, I have said at every | :30:03. | :30:10. | |
opportunity what is going on, there will be substantial debates policy, | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
there will undoubtedly be other Brexit debates, we have more plans | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
already there is no question that the House will not be fully | :30:20. | :30:26. | |
informed, this an illusion we have given them a white paper and as we | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
said we have given them the answer on customs union and an answer on | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
single markets. I don't know how much more open and Booth without | :30:37. | :30:43. | |
being dissected. This government seems to be in a constant state of | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
delayed reaction, we finally do have a paper on strengthening trade with | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
the world that reads the retreat, a conspicuous amount of the space is | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
totally blank, does that reflect the thinking on Brexit. The Government | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
thinking on Brexit is very clear, one of the problems is when you | :31:02. | :31:04. | |
disagree with it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist and that is the | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
problem the SNP have had all the way through, they don't like it. I think | :31:09. | :31:17. | |
it occurs in every book I own. In welcoming this white paper I hope it | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
heralds both unity in the party and the approach in leaving the European | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
Union. May I commend all members the speech of the right honourable | :31:29. | :31:31. | |
friend from North East Bedfordshire who yesterday spoke as the epitome | :31:32. | :31:38. | |
of grace. I agree with him entirely on both accounts. Does Secretary of | :31:39. | :31:44. | |
State except that the best way for the benefits of the common system | :31:45. | :31:51. | |
and framework that enable UK and EU businesses, would be to stay in a | :31:52. | :32:01. | |
single markets, there will need to be mechanisms to ensure UK | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
regulations don't diverged from EU regulations and can explain what | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
happens to sovereignty. The answer to the first question | :32:12. | :32:23. | |
is no in terms of what the best relationship, we have laid this out | :32:24. | :32:32. | |
in the paper and bearing in mind we are starting from a position of | :32:33. | :32:40. | |
identity. He makes a good point we will publish that in due course, it | :32:41. | :32:53. | |
is perfectly possible without reject to. Could my honourable friend | :32:54. | :33:03. | |
inform the House so what the House will do to ensure the Gibraltar | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
position and the free trade deal between passenger brothel which | :33:09. | :33:14. | |
could happen before we leave? My honourable friend was giving | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
evidence at the House of Lords on precisely this. We will protect | :33:18. | :33:26. | |
their interests rigorously. The Secretary of State observes that the | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
UK was a founding Member of the WTO but forgets that we were the driving | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
force behind the completion of the single market. Does he understand | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
how angry British businesses are that he should abandon that before | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
negotiations even start. There is a lot of conflation that goes on | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
between membership of single market and access to single markets. What | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
British business wanted unfettered access, what German, French and | :33:56. | :33:58. | |
Italian businesses want our unfettered access to our markets. | :33:59. | :34:17. | |
In... Almost by definition because of coming out of the union that will | :34:18. | :34:26. | |
happen, that is not to say we will not be making your, -- new | :34:27. | :34:34. | |
arrangements, will be making arrangements with very clear in our | :34:35. | :34:41. | |
mind to keep terrorism, crime under control but we will no doubt protect | :34:42. | :34:51. | |
them. The local government Association has been asking for | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
meetings with ministers about the impact on these processes on | :34:55. | :34:57. | |
councils and how more powers can be devolved yet in the speech today I | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
didn't a single reference to a local council and I can't see a single | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
reference in the white paper having read it through quickly, or the | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
Secretary of State now commit that the Government will have meaningful | :35:12. | :35:14. | |
discussions with the LPGA and commit to the principle of subsidiarity as | :35:15. | :35:21. | |
well. In a limited statement there is only so much you can do. The | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
Minister of State in the department has already met with the LGA and has | :35:28. | :35:34. | |
said he cancelled the local councils. I said I am willing to | :35:35. | :35:46. | |
meet the mayors in the next round of elections so we're not putting the | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
regions to one side, the very first meeting I heard after became | :35:51. | :35:56. | |
secretary of state was in Blackburn talking to people in Lancashire. | :35:57. | :36:05. | |
Thank you Mr Speaker. There are three British ambassadors in | :36:06. | :36:08. | |
Brussels, can I ask my right honourable friend if he thinks our | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
ambassador to the European Union will have his staff enhanced or | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
indeed might he be scrapped after we leave the European Union? I assume | :36:17. | :36:24. | |
he is talking about the upper ambassador and has 120 brilliant | :36:25. | :36:29. | |
staff who will work for me. I don't know what the arrangements will be, | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
what he refers to is an ambassador to Belgium, the Nato I assume and to | :36:35. | :36:41. | |
our crab, the UK representation. We will undoubtedly have close | :36:42. | :36:44. | |
relationships with the European Union and thereafter so it will be a | :36:45. | :36:47. | |
pretty sizeable embassy I would think that it's won't be what it is | :36:48. | :36:56. | |
now. Our current membership of the single market is governed by the EEA | :36:57. | :37:00. | |
agreement and a note is the Government contention we are a | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
Member by virtue, that may may not prove to be the case but can the | :37:07. | :37:11. | |
Secretary of State be clear about the implications of our own domestic | :37:12. | :37:16. | |
legislation in this regard, specifically the act of 1993, is the | :37:17. | :37:22. | |
Government going to repeal it, if so when and will we get a vote? The EEA | :37:23. | :37:30. | |
as it stands, once we are outside the European Union, whether we | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
automatically cease to be a Member or not, as far as I'm concerned, it | :37:36. | :37:42. | |
becomes an illegal empty vessel so we will look at that and if we do | :37:43. | :37:46. | |
propose to withdraw will come back to the House. | :37:47. | :37:54. | |
When European subjects have come to my surgery about their rights they | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
have left an agreement that those rights must go hand-in-hand with | :38:01. | :38:05. | |
UK's subjects living in their own countries. I hope he's got the | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
message. I've got the message and so, incidentally, have the leaders | :38:11. | :38:15. | |
of most of the countries. They also understand we have to protect | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
British rights at the same time as we protect their citizens' rights. | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
There is no question this is going to happen, it is a question of when | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
and we are doing it as quickly as possible. We welcome the White Paper | :38:28. | :38:34. | |
today and links with Ireland and trade and security and the wish for | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
unfettered access. At the Northern Ireland affairs committee this week | :38:40. | :38:41. | |
a custom specialist said the Irish for trading in goods would have to | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
have board appoints either between Northern Ireland and Ireland, or | :38:47. | :38:49. | |
much worse between Scotland and England and the island of Ireland. | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
With the Minister guarantee we will not have hard borders of that type? | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
We will not have hard borders. Two different levels, first the Common | :38:59. | :39:03. | |
Travel Area exists already and has existed since 1923. In that respect | :39:04. | :39:07. | |
nothing will change. In terms of goods there will be the softest and | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
most invisible and frictionless border we can find. There is lots of | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
technology these days ranging from a NPR ranging through to tagging of | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
containers and trusted trade arrangements across borders, these | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
things operate in Norway and Sweden, the US and Canada and so on, | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
countries with very amicable relationships and open borders and | :39:31. | :39:34. | |
we will do the same with Ireland. Doctor Andrew Mieres and. I thank | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
the Secretary of State, the Venn diagram on page 48 is particularly | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
insightful. People will know the European Union has concluded that | :39:47. | :39:49. | |
stomach pathetically small numbers of free-trade agreements with other | :39:50. | :39:54. | |
countries but there are some. Will he confirm there will either be a | :39:55. | :39:57. | |
continuity arrangement with those countries on Brexit, or that that | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
agreement will be the basis for an accelerated relationship with those | :40:02. | :40:07. | |
very few countries? Yes, my Right Honourable friend, the Secretary of | :40:08. | :40:09. | |
State for International Trade, has already been in touch with the most | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
important ones, South Korea and others like that, and they seem very | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
keen, both to maintain as it were grandfather rights, but also to | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
improve on the deal and make it very much more tailored and specific to | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
both our interests. Mr Speaker, I wanted to ask the question about the | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
so-called Great Repeal Bill. The White Paper says it will preserve EU | :40:29. | :40:35. | |
law which stands at the moment that we leave the European Union but goes | :40:36. | :40:39. | |
on to say it foresees two pieces of primary legislation being brought | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
forward. Then it goes on to say: they will be a problem with | :40:43. | :40:49. | |
secondary legislation of the great repeal Bill, deficiencies. What | :40:50. | :40:55. | |
deficiencies does he have in mind? Because the Great Repeal Bill will | :40:56. | :41:00. | |
pass through in its official wording it were referred to Europe | :41:01. | :41:03. | |
institutions or British institutions where necessary also it may refer | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
to, for example, local government has to publish its procurement | :41:10. | :41:12. | |
contracts in the European Journal. That would no longer be appropriate. | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
Not on the government website and so on. It's that sort of concern we | :41:19. | :41:21. | |
principally aimed the secondary legislation at. The major areas of | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
policy change will be primarily in primary legislation and that's why | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
we cited both examples. I welcome my Right Honourable friend's | :41:33. | :41:35. | |
constructive approach and in that light could I draw his attention to | :41:36. | :41:41. | |
a report by the European Parliament, highlighting Europeans' reliance, | :41:42. | :41:53. | |
and urged negotiators to approach it in a constructive fashion. We intend | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
to do so and it's in the interest of ourselves and European Union we do | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
so. We don't want anything which causes instability in the Eurozone | :42:02. | :42:04. | |
anymore that anything that damages the city. Margaret Ferrier. | :42:05. | :42:11. | |
Remarkably the White Paper does not contain a single reference to | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
Eurojust or any real indication of our future cooperation with the EU | :42:18. | :42:22. | |
on criminal justice matters. It begs the question if something is so | :42:23. | :42:25. | |
significant has been omitted what else is missing? Never mind a White | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
Paper, this is a lightweight paper. She worked very hard to get her | :42:31. | :42:35. | |
sound bite out. There is a whole section on justice and home affairs | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
and we have made it very plain, over and over again, that we intend to | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
maintain close Corporation, I even said in my statement at the | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
beginning, closer cooperation with Europe, not less cooperation with | :42:50. | :42:52. | |
Europe on matters of security and crime and intelligence. Understand | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
that Europe has a great deal to gain from this. We are the intelligence | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
superpower in Europe, we have the most powerful intelligence agencies, | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
and therefore in things like crime and terrorism we are very important | :43:06. | :43:08. | |
to them, as we think they are to us too. Glyn Davies. Thank you, Mr | :43:09. | :43:17. | |
Speaker, my hearing is a bit defective. There has already been | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
significant discussion between the Prime Minister and Welsh government | :43:22. | :43:25. | |
following the referendum last June. And discussion within the Welsh | :43:26. | :43:29. | |
Parliament. I welcome this. In the interests of UK unity wells's | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
interests must be taken into account, including discussion of | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
this White Paper -- Wales's interests. Can you guarantee the | :43:39. | :43:41. | |
involvement of Wales and continued to feature in our discussions, | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
accepting that there can be no veto? He is absolutely right and that has | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
been the approach we have taken. We have had a number of meetings of the | :43:51. | :43:54. | |
joint Mysterio committee, two shared. Mike Cherry by the Prime | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
Minister and three of them by me -- joint ministerial committee. We have | :44:00. | :44:01. | |
been to Wales to see the Welsh government and talk about some of | :44:02. | :44:06. | |
these issues. My Right Honourable friend is appearing before the Welsh | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
Parliament, Welsh committee, sorry, on the 14th. We are taking the | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
interests of Wales extremely seriously. We will operate this | :44:17. | :44:22. | |
negotiation so that no part of the United Kingdom loses. That's the | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
aim. Madeleine Moon. If we are leaving the Single Market and | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
Customs union, can the Secretary of State guarantee that my workers who | :44:33. | :44:41. | |
make the steel for Nissan cars, two thirds of which are exported to the | :44:42. | :44:49. | |
European Union, will have tariff free access to the European Union | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
markets, or is it only promise to negotiate and seek? If she reads the | :44:54. | :45:04. | |
White Paper she will see it lays out the European export of goods and | :45:05. | :45:09. | |
services is 290 billion and hours to them is 230 billion so they clearly | :45:10. | :45:17. | |
have a strong interest from as we do, in a tariff free goods access. | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
For them goods are a much bigger part of it as well. This disparity | :45:22. | :45:28. | |
is over 60 billion. There is every reason to expect we will succeed in | :45:29. | :45:31. | |
what we want to do which is to protect jobs. Martin Vickers. My | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
Right Honourable friend will recall last week at promised questions I | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
asked about the seed sector that sector will be pleased with the | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
comment in paragraph 8:1.6 giving full support but he will also be | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
aware of the long-standing grievance of the fishing communities | :45:52. | :45:54. | |
up-and-down the country following their sell-out in the original | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
negotiations. Can he reiterate once again that that will not occur on | :45:59. | :46:07. | |
this occasion? Yes. Martin Docherty-Hughes. Thank you, Mr | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
Speaker. The Secretary of State makes much of the process and joked | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
that we might be at this for another two years, yet in that time the | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
unelected and unaccountable House of Lords will have more influence on | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
the implementation of the White Paper and the negotiations in | :46:26. | :46:28. | |
relationships we must forge for trade agreements than the | :46:29. | :46:31. | |
governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. How does that | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
strengthen the union? It's simply not the case. As I just said to my | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
honourable friend, we have regular monthly meetings with the Scottish | :46:43. | :46:45. | |
Government, the Welsh government, the Northern Irish executive when | :46:46. | :46:51. | |
they are in play and we are taking what they say very seriously. We | :46:52. | :46:54. | |
won't agree with everything they say, as you well know. We had the | :46:55. | :46:58. | |
Scottish Government's paper presented at the last meeting and | :46:59. | :47:04. | |
there were areas of agreement on employment protection, areas of | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
agreement on environmental to. There were disagreements over the concept | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
of a carve out of the Single Market and a discussion on the question of | :47:16. | :47:18. | |
how devolution will work. That is hardly not paying attention to the | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
Scottish Government. Mr Speaker, thank you. I welcome the White Paper | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
and I am glad the government has listened to members and may I say | :47:29. | :47:31. | |
that EU nationals play a vital part in a university's workplaces. Can I | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
ask the Secretary of State while I support the need for some control of | :47:37. | :47:40. | |
freedom of movement, will he ensure in negotiations that workers, | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
students, family members find that our borders remain open if they are | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
from the EU? After all, control does not mean arbitrary restrictions? | :47:49. | :47:52. | |
Absolutely, control does not mean slamming the door. As I said before, | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
it's in the UK interest to actually keep attracting talent, and when you | :47:58. | :48:04. | |
attract talent you attract their families. That goes without saying. | :48:05. | :48:07. | |
This is one of the things, I was asked if I could promise something | :48:08. | :48:10. | |
earlier to be negotiated, this is something we will decide in this | :48:11. | :48:13. | |
House for the first time in a couple of years' time. One crucial, I think | :48:14. | :48:20. | |
reasonable, question for the Secretary of State, is how does he | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
seek frictionless, unfettered trade with the EU continuing after we have | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
signed free-trade deals with other countries? Surely, Secretary of | :48:30. | :48:31. | |
State, the greater the divergence between ourselves and Single Market | :48:32. | :48:34. | |
in terms of external tariffs and standards the greater their need at | :48:35. | :48:37. | |
some point to impose customs duties on us. We seek to maintain some kind | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
of standard parity, whether it is by a measure of equivalence or whatever | :48:44. | :48:47. | |
depending on the product. The area where the deals outside and the | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
deals with the European Union conflict, if you like, is in the | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
area of rules of origin. We will have to have a good rules of origin | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
scheme, just as any other free-trade area has. For example, if you look | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
at the Canadian treaty it has specific rules of origin and we will | :49:06. | :49:09. | |
need to do the same. That is a very small burden by comparison with the | :49:10. | :49:12. | |
sort of things people are worrying about if we get the customs | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
agreement we seek. Thank you, Mr Speaker. When does my Right | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
Honourable thing, if ever, the European Union will issue an | :49:23. | :49:25. | |
equivalent White Paper setting out with equal clarity the agreed | :49:26. | :49:30. | |
negotiating objectives of the 27 other members? Well, his question | :49:31. | :49:39. | |
sort of answers itself. But I hope, I hope, once they have received the | :49:40. | :49:44. | |
Article 50 letter from us in April or May, in their case they will | :49:45. | :49:48. | |
receive it in March and respond in April. | :49:49. | :49:53. | |
Thank you, Mr Speaker. I know that today is Groundhog Day, but why are | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
we exiting the customs union in order to recreate the customs union? | :49:58. | :50:02. | |
It is to create a customs agreement, in order to enable us to develop | :50:03. | :50:08. | |
free-trade agreements with that huge portion of the world where there is | :50:09. | :50:12. | |
very fast growth and where we have a strong market presence. 40%, as much | :50:13. | :50:23. | |
of our trade now is with areas where we don't have | :50:24. | :50:24. | |
as it is with the European Union. It is a very large area and it is | :50:25. | :50:27. | |
growing, sometimes twice as fast, as the EU is. That's why we have to | :50:28. | :50:34. | |
talk about the implications of the referendum are young people. The | :50:35. | :50:37. | |
biggest application is the prospect of jobs in the future and many of | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
those will come from global markets, not just European ones. Nigel Evans. | :50:42. | :50:49. | |
Lots of the politicians in EU states say they are against torture but | :50:50. | :50:52. | |
don't they recognise the fact they are not willing to come to a deal | :50:53. | :50:56. | |
with him about EU citizens being allowed to stay, live and work here | :50:57. | :50:59. | |
and British citizens being allowed to live and stay and work in the EU | :51:00. | :51:05. | |
countries is a form of mental trauma and torture they are perpetrating | :51:06. | :51:08. | |
upon them? Will he redouble his efforts to get the deal done as | :51:09. | :51:11. | |
quickly as possible and make the announcement as quickly as possible. | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
If there is only one or two countries holding out for whatever | :51:16. | :51:18. | |
reason, will he be prepared to name and shame them in order that The | :51:19. | :51:21. | |
Citizens here can bring pressure upon them to get a deal done? I will | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
certainly do the first half, I will redouble my efforts, though they are | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
pretty intense anyway, to ensure that this happens quickly. He's | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
right, it's just a few, and I suspect their reasoning is the sort | :51:35. | :51:40. | |
of community reasoning of not starting anything before the | :51:41. | :51:43. | |
negotiations start and I hope that will be rapidly resolved thereafter. | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
Doctor Julian Lewis. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Doesn't the fact that so | :51:50. | :51:52. | |
many honourable members on both sides of the House who wanted us to | :51:53. | :51:57. | |
remain in the European Union, but nevertheless last night voted to | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
trigger Article 50, set a fine example that members of the | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
unelected upper house would do very well to follow? Mr Speaker, I am | :52:08. | :52:14. | |
sitting here calculating whether his question today was longer than his | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
speech yesterday. I think it was. Yes, I hope they pay attention. | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
Look, this Bill is a manifestation of the will of the people. Nearly | :52:25. | :52:30. | |
17.5 million people. I would expect the upper house, it has its place | :52:31. | :52:33. | |
and it has its rights quite properly, but I would expect the | :52:34. | :52:38. | |
upper house to respect that will. SPEAKER: I'm grateful to the | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
Secretary of State and two colleagues. We come now to the | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
Select Committee Statement. In a moment the chair of the public | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
administration and Constitutional affairs Select Committee of the | :52:52. | :52:54. | |
House, Mr Bernard Jenkin, will speak on his subject for up to ten minutes | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
during which time no interventions may be taken. At the conclusion of | :53:01. | :53:06. | |
his statement the chair will call members to put questions on the | :53:07. | :53:11. | |
subject of the statement and call Mr Jenkin to respond to these in turn. | :53:12. | :53:16. | |
Members can expect to be called only once. Interventions should be | :53:17. | :53:24. | |
questions and should be brief. The front bench may take part in | :53:25. | :53:28. | |
questioning. I call the | :53:29. | :53:29. |