EU Referendum Statement

:00:00. > :00:00.policing and fire and rescue services is to be able to offer

:00:00. > :00:00.enhanced services. In looking at a decision to be on a local level, a

:00:00. > :00:18.business it -- case will Mr Speaker, the commission I would

:00:19. > :00:23.like to make a statement on the agreements reached in Brussels last

:00:24. > :00:26.week. First let me say a word about the migration crisis which was also

:00:27. > :00:31.discussed at the European Council. We agreed that we needed to press

:00:32. > :00:35.ahead with strengthening the use borders to ensure that not the

:00:36. > :00:41.charges are returned promptly and back the new mission that has

:00:42. > :00:47.brought the criminal gangs to put them in peoples slides and the risk.

:00:48. > :00:50.Britain. But the Constitution and all of these areas. Turning to

:00:51. > :00:53.Britain's place in Europe. I have spent the last nine months ending

:00:54. > :00:58.out the four areas are ready for form and beating with all other 27

:00:59. > :01:02.EU heads of state and government to reach an agreed with that delivers

:01:03. > :01:07.concrete reforms and all four areas. Let me take each in turn. First, but

:01:08. > :01:11.as jobs and businesses depend on being able to trade with Europe on a

:01:12. > :01:17.level praying field. The one new protection for our economy to

:01:18. > :01:20.safeguard the proud and promote our financial services industry to

:01:21. > :01:24.protect British taxpayers from because the problems in the euro

:01:25. > :01:27.zone and to ensure that we have a full say over the rules of a single

:01:28. > :01:32.market while remaining outside the euro zone. We got all those things.

:01:33. > :01:36.We have not is probably the fact of the towns and our right to keep it

:01:37. > :01:40.but we have ensured that we cannot discriminate against. Responsibility

:01:41. > :01:44.for supervising the financial stability of the UK, will always

:01:45. > :02:01.remain in the hands of the Bank of England. We

:02:02. > :02:05.have not be made to bail out countries in the euro zone, they

:02:06. > :02:08.made sure that the euro zone cannot act as a block to undermine the

:02:09. > :02:11.integrity of these free-trade single market. We guarantee that produced

:02:12. > :02:13.this is one of faith and he does commission for being outside the

:02:14. > :02:15.euro zone. For example, our financial service firms, our number

:02:16. > :02:17.one service export, employing over a million people can ever be forced to

:02:18. > :02:19.relocate inside the euro zone if they want to undertake complex

:02:20. > :02:22.trades and Europe, just because they're based in the UK. These with

:02:23. > :02:24.taxes and not to set out in a legally binding agreements, off 28

:02:25. > :02:27.member states will also clear that these reviews will be changed, to

:02:28. > :02:32.incorporate the protections of the UK as the economy that is inside the

:02:33. > :02:43.EU, but outside the euro zone. We also agree that a to enable 9 euros

:02:44. > :02:46.on countries to raise issues of concern, and we won the battle to

:02:47. > :02:48.ensure that this could be triggered by one country alone. Of course the

:02:49. > :02:51.distance would be available if he were to leave the EU. We wanted

:02:52. > :02:55.commitments to make Europe more competitive, creating jobs, and

:02:56. > :02:59.making British families more financially secure. Again, we got

:03:00. > :03:03.them. Europe will complete the single market and key areas that

:03:04. > :03:10.will help Britain. And services making it easier for thousands of UK

:03:11. > :03:16.service bays companies like IT firms to trade in Europe. In the capital

:03:17. > :03:25.so UK startups can access more for their business and an energy. We

:03:26. > :03:27.have secured commitments to complete trade and investment agreements with

:03:28. > :03:33.the fastest-growing and most dynamic economies around the world.

:03:34. > :03:37.Including the USA, Japan, China as well as our Commonwealth allies,

:03:38. > :03:42.India, New Zealand and Australia. These deals could add billions of

:03:43. > :03:46.pounds and thousands of jobs. Of course, they build on the deals we

:03:47. > :03:50.already have with the three countries around the world for which

:03:51. > :03:52.Britain has been accredited to the negotiating muscle that comes from

:03:53. > :03:59.being part of the world largest trading bloc. This is bigger, of

:04:00. > :04:03.course country after country has said that they could find trade

:04:04. > :04:07.deals with Britain, but they have also said that their priority would

:04:08. > :04:11.be trade deals with the EU. By their nature, these EU deals would be

:04:12. > :04:16.bigger and better, a deal with Britain would not even be possible

:04:17. > :04:20.until we have settled our position outside of the EU. This is bigger,

:04:21. > :04:24.for those members who care about finding new trade deals outside of

:04:25. > :05:07.the EU, we would be looking at years and years of delay.

:05:08. > :05:10.Last but by no means least on competitiveness, one of the biggest

:05:11. > :05:13.frustrations for Britain's business is red tape and bureaucracy. There

:05:14. > :05:15.will be partners to cut the total burden of EU regulation on business.

:05:16. > :05:17.This build on the progress that we have already made, with the

:05:18. > :05:20.commission already cutting the number of initiatives by 80%. In the

:05:21. > :05:23.that the cost of EU red tape will be going down, not up. Of course if we

:05:24. > :05:26.were to leave the EU, but ultimately achieve a deal, with access to the

:05:27. > :05:29.single market like Norway. Who would be subject to all of the EU

:05:30. > :05:31.regulation when selling in the euro. But with no say over the world. As

:05:32. > :05:34.the former Europe spokesman for the no reason conservative party, if you

:05:35. > :05:37.want to run Europe you must be an euro. If you want to be run by

:05:38. > :05:40.Europe, feel free to join nor Ray. Third, we want to reduce the very

:05:41. > :05:43.high level of migration within the unique -- EQ by preventing our role

:05:44. > :05:46.for system to act as a magnet for people to come to our country. After

:05:47. > :05:48.the hard work of the home Secretary we have secured new powers against

:05:49. > :05:51.criminals of the country and power to stop them from coming here in the

:05:52. > :05:53.first is empowered to do for them if they already here. We agreed a

:05:54. > :05:56.longer reentry bands for fraudsters and people who collude and then into

:05:57. > :06:00.the ridiculous situation for EU nationals can avoid British

:06:01. > :06:04.immigration rules when bringing their feminism outside the EU.

:06:05. > :06:09.Disagreement broke new ground with the European Council agreed to

:06:10. > :06:13.reverse positions from the European Court of Justice. We also secured a

:06:14. > :06:18.breakthrough agreement for Britain to reduce the unnatural drawl that I

:06:19. > :06:22.benefit system exerts across Europe. Therefore he made sure that EU

:06:23. > :06:26.migrants cannot claim the new employment benefit or universal

:06:27. > :06:31.credit. Those coming that have not found work within six months cannot

:06:32. > :06:34.be required to leave. At this counsel we agree that EU migrants

:06:35. > :06:39.working in Britain can be prevented from sending Child benefit home at

:06:40. > :06:43.UK rates. This would apply first some new claimants and then to

:06:44. > :06:49.existing claimants on the start of 2020. We also establish a new break

:06:50. > :06:53.so that EU migrants would have to wait for years until they have full

:06:54. > :07:01.access to our benefit. Mr Speaker, people for the it was impossible to

:07:02. > :07:07.achieve real change in our area. Yet, that is what we have done, we

:07:08. > :07:13.have got the benefit. What is activated, once activated, the

:07:14. > :07:18.emergency brake will be in place for seven years. If it began to lecture

:07:19. > :07:24.it will still be operating in 2024. There will be people who won't be

:07:25. > :07:33.getting 40 benefits until 2028. Bass full benefits. People should not be

:07:34. > :07:38.able to come there and get access to our benefit to them straightaway. No

:07:39. > :07:43.were something for nothing. I'm sure the discussion about welfare and

:07:44. > :07:48.immigration, will be intense, let me make this point. No country outside

:07:49. > :07:53.of the EU has agreed full access to the single market without accepting

:07:54. > :07:59.paying into the EU, and accepting free movement. In addition, our new

:08:00. > :08:03.safeguard lives if we vote the leave the EU. We might end up with free

:08:04. > :08:09.movement, but without these new protections. The fourth area, where

:08:10. > :08:14.we wanted to make significant changes was to protect our country

:08:15. > :08:19.from further European political integration, and to increased powers

:08:20. > :08:22.for our national parliament. Ever since we joined, Europe has been on

:08:23. > :08:28.the path to something ever closer union. It means a political union.

:08:29. > :08:34.We have never liked it or wanted it. And now, principal be permanently

:08:35. > :08:37.and legally excluded from it. The text that is, the treaties will be

:08:38. > :08:43.changed to make clear, and I quote, the Treaty represents for an ever

:08:44. > :08:47.closer union do not apply to the United Kingdom. This is bigger, as a

:08:48. > :08:52.result of this negotiation, perfect in every part of a European Union

:08:53. > :08:55.superstate. The council also agreed that ever closer union which has

:08:56. > :09:00.been referred to, and previous estimates from the European Court of

:09:01. > :09:04.Justice, does not offer a legal basis, for extending the scope of

:09:05. > :09:09.any provisions of the charges, or any you secretary the translation.

:09:10. > :09:13.People used to talk about a multispeed Europe, now we have a

:09:14. > :09:17.clear agreement that not only are different countries able to travel

:09:18. > :09:21.at different speeds, but they are ultimately able to head to different

:09:22. > :09:26.destinations as well. I would argue that that is a fundamental change in

:09:27. > :09:29.the wait is over additional work. We also strengthen the role of this

:09:30. > :09:35.house and on national parliament, we already passed a referendum act, to

:09:36. > :09:37.make sure that no powers can be handed to Brussels without this

:09:38. > :09:40.house and on national parliament, we already passed a referendum act, to

:09:41. > :09:42.make sure that no powers can be handed to Brussels with updates with

:09:43. > :09:45.the consent of the British the position we don't want, we can get

:09:46. > :09:50.together with other parliaments and block it with a red card. And we

:09:51. > :09:54.have a new mechanism to enforce the principle that as far as possible,

:09:55. > :10:00.powers to sit here and Westminster, not to Brussels. The European Union

:10:01. > :10:03.has to go through the powers of the exercise and work-out which are no

:10:04. > :10:10.longer needed and should be returned to Michigan State. In recent years

:10:11. > :10:13.we have also seen attempt to bypass are off out on Justice and home

:10:14. > :10:24.affairs by bringing forward legislation. The agreements and Les

:10:25. > :10:30.Bleus Council ensures that this can never happen again. The reforms that

:10:31. > :10:33.we have secured will be legally binding in international law and

:10:34. > :10:39.will be deposited as a Treaty at the UN. They cannot be unpacked that the

:10:40. > :10:44.agreement of the prison every other EU countries. As I have said, I'll

:10:45. > :10:48.28 member states that the treaty will be changed to incorporate

:10:49. > :10:52.advertisers for the UK as an economy outside the euro zone, and our

:10:53. > :10:56.permanent exclusion from ever closer union. Mr Speaker, our special

:10:57. > :11:02.status means that Britain can have the both best of both worlds. Who

:11:03. > :11:06.will be in the path of Europe that work for us, and so it's a affect

:11:07. > :11:11.us, in the driving seat of the worlds biggest single market, and

:11:12. > :11:49.with the ability to take action to keep our people safe. We will be

:11:50. > :11:54.out of the parts of Europe that do not work for us. Out of the euro, as

:11:55. > :11:56.of the euro zone bailouts come out of the passport periods no border

:11:57. > :11:59.area and permanently and legally protected from ever being part of a

:12:00. > :12:02.ever closer union. Of course there is still more to do, I am the first

:12:03. > :12:04.to say, that there is though many ways and was organisation needs to

:12:05. > :12:07.improve. The task of reforming Europe does not and with plastics

:12:08. > :12:09.agreement. With the special status that the settlement gives the I do

:12:10. > :12:11.believe that the time has come to fulfilling the other final

:12:12. > :12:14.commitment that this government made and that is to hold a referendum. Mr

:12:15. > :12:17.Speaker, this Speaker, I am today commended the process set out from

:12:18. > :12:19.our act and to propose that the British people decide our future and

:12:20. > :12:22.Europe to an in and out referendum on Thursday the 23rd of June. The

:12:23. > :12:24.Foreign Secretary is late and both houses and the government is

:12:25. > :12:27.negotiating it. This is built into the duty to publish information, set

:12:28. > :12:29.out in section six of the European Union referendum and that the

:12:30. > :12:31.Cabinet agreed on Saturday, the government of Zimbabwe to recommend

:12:32. > :12:36.that person remains in a reformed European Union. This is a vital

:12:37. > :12:41.decision for the future of our country, I agree that we should also

:12:42. > :12:45.be clear that it is a final decision. An idea has been put

:12:46. > :12:50.forward that in the country votes to leave. We can have a second

:12:51. > :12:56.renegotiation and perhaps another referendum. I want to vote on the

:12:57. > :12:57.irony that some people who want to vote to leave, apparently want to

:12:58. > :13:22.use a leave to remain. Such an approach, also ignores more profound

:13:23. > :13:27.point about democracy, diplomacy and the galaxy. This is a straight

:13:28. > :13:32.Democratic position. Staying in or leaving and no government can ignore

:13:33. > :13:40.that. Having a second renegotiation followed by a second referendum is

:13:41. > :13:42.not on the ballot paper. And for a promise are to ignore the expressed

:13:43. > :13:49.will of the British people to leave the EU, we are not just from but it

:13:50. > :13:52.would be undemocratic. On the diplomacy, the idea that the other

:13:53. > :13:57.European countries will be ready to start a second negotiation is for

:13:58. > :14:01.the birds. Many are under pressure for what they have already agreed.

:14:02. > :14:05.Then there is a legality and I want to start off as point for the house

:14:06. > :14:10.carefully because it is important. If the British people told to leave,

:14:11. > :14:14.there is only one way to bring that about. That is to trigger article 50

:14:15. > :14:18.of the treaties and begin the process of exit. The British people

:14:19. > :14:22.would rightly expect that that should start straightaway. That may

:14:23. > :14:27.be absolutely clear about how this works. As triggers a two your time

:14:28. > :14:32.period to negotiate the residence for an exit. At the end of the

:14:33. > :14:37.stairs, is no group what is in place, then exit is automatic and

:14:38. > :14:45.left everybody in the other states agrees to a delay. We should be

:14:46. > :14:49.clear that this process is not a invitation to rejoin, it is a

:14:50. > :14:53.process for leaving. I have known a number of couples who have began

:14:54. > :14:56.divorce proceedings, but I do not know an event begun divorce

:14:57. > :15:11.proceedings and order to renew their marriage vows. LAUGHTER that may

:15:12. > :15:19.explain, I want to explain what happens when section 50. We should

:15:20. > :15:25.also be clear... We should also be clear, what would happen if that

:15:26. > :15:28.deal to leave was not done within two years. Our current access to the

:15:29. > :15:32.single market would cease immediately, after two your throat.

:15:33. > :15:36.The current trade agreements with the difficulties across the world

:15:37. > :15:41.would lapse. This cannot be described as anything other than

:15:42. > :15:45.risk, uncertainty and a lead in the dark that could hurt working people

:15:46. > :15:49.and our country for years to come. This is not some theoretical

:15:50. > :16:02.question, this is a real decision about peoples lives.

:16:03. > :16:06.When it comes the people stops, it is simply not enough to say it will

:16:07. > :16:08.be all right on the night that will work it out. I believe that

:16:09. > :16:11.intermixed the company to properly face up to the economic consequences

:16:12. > :16:14.of a choice to leave. Mr Speaker, I believe that Britain will be

:16:15. > :16:16.stronger, safer and better off by remaining in a reformed European

:16:17. > :16:18.Union. Stronger, because we can play a leading role in one of the worlds

:16:19. > :16:22.largest organizations from within. Helping to make sure the big

:16:23. > :16:26.decisions on trade and security that determine our future. Safer, because

:16:27. > :16:30.the can work with our European partners to fight cross-border crime

:16:31. > :16:34.and terrorism. And better off because businesses will have full

:16:35. > :16:42.access to the free-trade single market, bringing jobs, investment

:16:43. > :16:44.and lower prices. Mr Speaker, there will be much debate about

:16:45. > :16:46.sovereignty and rightly so, to me, what matters most is the pattern to

:16:47. > :16:52.get things done for our people and our country. Leaving the EU may

:16:53. > :16:55.briefly make us feel more sovereign, but would actually give us more

:16:56. > :17:01.power or influence and a greater ability to get things done? If we

:17:02. > :17:04.leave, but we have the power to stop opposite is being discriminated

:17:05. > :17:08.against? No! But we have the power to insist that Europeans countries

:17:09. > :17:13.share with us their bold information so that we know what there is that

:17:14. > :17:16.criminals are doing? No! We have more influence over the decisions

:17:17. > :17:21.that affect the prosperity and security epistemic? Know we won't!

:17:22. > :17:27.We are a great country! Whatever it was the make, we will still be

:17:28. > :17:30.great! I believe the choice, is between being and even greater brain

:17:31. > :17:34.inside how to reform the EU, or a great leap into the unknown! The

:17:35. > :17:37.Times is facing the West and how to reform the EU, or a great leap into

:17:38. > :17:40.the unknown! The Times is facing the West today Vladimir Putin aggression

:17:41. > :17:46.and eases the most extremism to the south, this is in no time to divide

:17:47. > :17:50.the web. When faced with challenges, and to our way of life, our values

:17:51. > :17:56.and freedoms, this is it time for strength in numbers. Mr Speaker, let

:17:57. > :18:02.me end by saying, I am not standing for reelection. I have no other

:18:03. > :18:07.agenda I have no other agenda than what is best for our country. I am

:18:08. > :18:11.standing here telling you what I think. My responsibility as prime

:18:12. > :18:15.minister is to speak plainly about what I believe is right for our

:18:16. > :18:19.country. That that is what I will do every day for the next four months.

:18:20. > :18:29.I commend the statements of the house! Thinking is bigger. I would

:18:30. > :18:32.like to think the promise of four advanced notice of the statement.

:18:33. > :18:45.And I visited him in a long time to write it because I receded a but

:18:46. > :18:49.it's as afternoon. -- I received it at 3pm this afternoon. The people of

:18:50. > :18:52.Britain face in-store price on the 23rd of June on whether to remain

:18:53. > :18:57.part of the European Union went to leave. We welcome the fact that it

:18:58. > :19:09.is now the hands of the people on this issue. We are wanting to stay

:19:10. > :19:11.and because he believed that the European Union has brought

:19:12. > :19:15.investment jobs and protection for work of consumers and the

:19:16. > :19:22.environment. We are convinced that a vote to remain as of the best

:19:23. > :19:26.interest of the people. And the 21st-century Mr Speaker, as a

:19:27. > :19:29.country and a consummate and as the human race. We faced with

:19:30. > :19:34.challenging issues. How to tackle climate change, how to address the

:19:35. > :19:40.power of global corporations, how to ensure that they pay state taxes.

:19:41. > :19:45.How to tackle cyber crime and terrorism, I would trade fairly and

:19:46. > :19:49.protect jobs and pay in an era of globalisation. How we address the

:19:50. > :19:55.causes of the huge refugee movement across the world. How would add that

:19:56. > :20:01.to a world where people of all countries, move more frequently to

:20:02. > :20:04.live, work and retire. All of these issues are serious, pressing and

:20:05. > :20:09.self-evidently can only be solved by international cooperation. The

:20:10. > :20:15.European Union will be a vital part of how we as a country meet those

:20:16. > :20:19.challenges. Therefore Mr Speaker. That is more than disappointing that

:20:20. > :20:26.the prime Minister Steele has failed to address a single one of those

:20:27. > :20:33.issues. Last week, like him, I was in Brussels, meeting with heads of

:20:34. > :20:34.governments and leaders of European Union Socialist party. One of them

:20:35. > :21:15.said to me, what they said, if the party opposite of what

:21:16. > :21:19.had to think for a moment about what's going on. One person said to

:21:20. > :21:24.me, I follows quite profound, he said we are discussing the future of

:21:25. > :21:30.a continent. And one English Tory has reduced it to the issue of

:21:31. > :21:34.taking away benefits from workers and children. The reality Mr

:21:35. > :21:37.Speaker, is that this entire negotiation has not been about the

:21:38. > :21:44.challenges facing our confidence, neither has it been about the issues

:21:45. > :21:48.facing the people of Britain it is a theatrical sideshow about trying to

:21:49. > :21:53.appease or failing to appease the half of the Prime Minister is all

:21:54. > :21:59.the conservative party. That is not to say that there has not been

:22:00. > :22:04.somewhat worthwhile changes. The Redcar assist him, to strengthen the

:22:05. > :22:10.house of national parliament is something we and these mentors have

:22:11. > :22:16.long back, the labor and elastin last in Iraq's election. It was not

:22:17. > :22:21.of the conservative man manifesto but we welcome this. We also welcome

:22:22. > :22:26.the symbolic amendment on ever closer union. Britain's

:22:27. > :22:32.long-standing position not to join has been such an accepted. We see

:22:33. > :22:39.the influence of Tory party funders, on a Prime Minister vessel status,

:22:40. > :22:43.not for Britain but the city of London. It is the same essence of

:22:44. > :22:51.that caused his the Chancellor to rush to Europe with an army of

:22:52. > :22:57.lawyers to oppose any regulation of the grotesque level of bankers

:22:58. > :23:03.bonuses. It is necessary to protect the rights of 9 euros on states, but

:23:04. > :23:10.not to undermine EU wide efforts to regulate the financial sector,

:23:11. > :23:16.including the border. Liberals stand for a different approach. That's a

:23:17. > :23:24.labor. That is why members of the European Parliament is a opposing

:23:25. > :23:29.the transatlantic trade negotiations was trying to undermine national

:23:30. > :23:36.sovereignty, push the privatsation of public services, drive down

:23:37. > :23:39.standards for workers and consumers, Mr Speaker, human rights should be

:23:40. > :23:43.but part of that treaty. I believe it should be happy feature of all

:23:44. > :23:50.trade treaties. Then, there is the so-called emergency brake. We

:23:51. > :23:54.support the principle of Peart Constitution. However, does the

:23:55. > :23:58.evidence not back-up the claim that an overt benefits are significant

:23:59. > :24:04.draw for workers who come to Britain from the European Union. The changes

:24:05. > :24:08.he promised is secured do nothing to address the real challenges of low

:24:09. > :24:11.pay and prevent undercutting of local rates rates and and is derived

:24:12. > :24:16.pay agreements, they won't put a penny in the pockets of workers and

:24:17. > :24:21.Britain nor will they stop the grotesque exploitation of many

:24:22. > :24:25.migrant workers, or reduce migration to Britain. Will the promised to

:24:26. > :24:31.tell us what discussions he has had to get European roles and place to

:24:32. > :24:35.protect the going rates and to stop agencies bragging and cheap labor,

:24:36. > :24:37.to undercut workers and Britain, while the exploit to undercut

:24:38. > :24:42.workers and Britain, while exploiting the martyr for his? The

:24:43. > :24:45.Dees the two of the EU leaders about outlawing the so-called Buddhist

:24:46. > :24:48.derogation from the edge workers directive for which threatens to

:24:49. > :24:53.undermine one of the key achievements of the last Labour

:24:54. > :24:58.government by allowing them to use them agency staff to undercut other

:24:59. > :25:04.workers? These would have been positive and worthwhile discussions

:25:05. > :25:09.to tackle low-paid, reduce benefit cost and protect workers. We must on

:25:10. > :25:13.all of the speaker, be clear that Britain has benefited from

:25:14. > :25:18.migration. From EU workers coming into wrecking our industry to our

:25:19. > :25:22.other public services to fill gaps. The thousands of doctors and nurses

:25:23. > :25:28.who work in our national health service is saving lives every day.

:25:29. > :25:31.The European Union has delivered protection from workers, it would

:25:32. > :25:35.labor that made sure that Britain's EU membership if work is right to

:25:36. > :25:38.make minimum paid leave and protection on working time is ripe

:25:39. > :25:43.for agency workers, paid maternity and paternity leave, equal pay,

:25:44. > :25:47.anti-discrimination laws, and protection for the work force with

:25:48. > :25:51.companies changed ownership. It was labor working partnership with the

:25:52. > :25:54.parties and unions across Europe that makes of the vehicle promise of

:25:55. > :26:00.the vehicle promise of attempt to diminish workers rights was kept off

:26:01. > :26:04.the agenda of these EU negotiations. Labor has supported, move to reduce

:26:05. > :26:10.child benefits and nonresident children as a reasonable amendment,

:26:11. > :26:13.however we also welcome protection for 20 and so that families have the

:26:14. > :26:20.ability of income. The prominence it still includes consignments. But it

:26:21. > :26:23.a closet and irrelevant to the choice facing the British people.

:26:24. > :26:26.Not one to go I facing the British people. Not one fickle element that

:26:27. > :26:29.is a significant impact on the Kevin Kisner and stay in. We welcome

:26:30. > :26:36.the fact the theatrical sideshow is over. We want to make a real case

:26:37. > :26:46.that will be put by my friend the Member for who really are camping.

:26:47. > :26:52.Labor believes the EU is a model framework for European trade and

:26:53. > :26:56.cooperation in the 21st century. Not only what the EU delivered today but

:26:57. > :26:59.as a framework through which we can achieve much more in the future. To

:27:00. > :27:03.deliver these progressive reforms that I have referred to, when he to

:27:04. > :27:08.work with our partners and Europe to achieve them. Therefore, we must

:27:09. > :27:13.ensure that remain a member. That is the case are going to be making for

:27:14. > :27:17.a Europe that is socially cohesive, a Europe that share the benefit of

:27:18. > :27:21.wealth and prosperity amongst all of its citizens. But as the case we are

:27:22. > :27:24.making as Labour Party, as a trade union movement in this country and

:27:25. > :27:31.we look forward to that public debate. By Magomed have the opposite

:27:32. > :27:36.spin for his contribution. He and I disagree on a lot of things about

:27:37. > :27:40.economic policy about social policy about welfare policy, and did you

:27:41. > :27:43.even disagree on the approach we should take within and Europe as a

:27:44. > :27:46.gas as demonstrated in his the spots, but we do both agree about

:27:47. > :27:52.one thing, which says that Britain should be in there fighting for a

:27:53. > :27:55.good deal for our country. I were a little for the ombudsman because he

:27:56. > :27:59.will be accused of fossils of things. Some of the verism of the

:28:00. > :28:02.unfair. If the Texas courts will be accused of being a member of the

:28:03. > :28:08.establishment. That'll be the most unfair attack of all. What he said

:28:09. > :28:13.about the deal, than they make two points about why I think he should

:28:14. > :28:17.welcome the deal, the first is that implements, as far as I can see him

:28:18. > :28:21.as every pledged on Europe and the Labour manifesto, I'm looking at the

:28:22. > :28:24.former leader. They pledged to complete the former leader. They

:28:25. > :28:29.pledged to complete physical market, they pledged for budget discipline.

:28:30. > :28:33.They said that we will ensure that EU rules protect the interest of 9

:28:34. > :28:37.euros members. He went on and said that people coming to Britain from

:28:38. > :28:40.the EU to look for work, are expected to contribute to our

:28:41. > :28:48.economy and to our society so that we will secure is to immigration and

:28:49. > :28:59.Social Security reform. It also says and I quote," we would work to

:29:00. > :29:05.strengthen,... I'm just reminding my new friend what they said that the

:29:06. > :29:08.election. They said this "We will work just as the influence of

:29:09. > :29:12.national parliaments over Europe in the session by our group for Redcar

:29:13. > :29:18.mechanism for never states." Excellent. Where I think the right

:29:19. > :29:22.of him was unfair is that he's said that this deal was really all about

:29:23. > :29:27.Britain, and not about anyone else. I would point out the Slovakian

:29:28. > :29:31.Prime Minister said good, the myth about every quote didn't have

:29:32. > :29:34.followed. The Hungarian prime minister said that the UK managed to

:29:35. > :29:39.put an end to the practice of creeping power withdraw from

:29:40. > :29:45.national member states. The former president of the commission said

:29:46. > :29:48.that the real consequence of the summit is missionary important.

:29:49. > :29:55.Brussels has an shot a multispeed Europe. This is beneficial to your.

:29:56. > :29:59.Where I disagreed with the ombudsman is I think that these trade deals

:30:00. > :30:05.are good for Britain and is to redo them we the better. I think he's

:30:06. > :30:10.wrong about financial services. That was well received -- and outside of

:30:11. > :30:14.the southern city of London and five. Crucially, what the single

:30:15. > :30:18.market means is that with one establishment and Britain, you can

:30:19. > :30:27.trade throughout the European Union. Booze it and do the job going for

:30:28. > :30:32.Labor government than the care we have all had our difficulties with

:30:33. > :30:36.your. We have all went to the debug the damn. But if I want to get

:30:37. > :30:42.powers in turn, we have all found that because of I love for this

:30:43. > :30:47.house, we found this process trying but at the end of the day we always

:30:48. > :30:55.know when it comes to our economy and prosperity we're

:30:56. > :31:05.will be Prime Minister agree that if he refers to the continental press

:31:06. > :31:10.he will see that he has demonstrated the influence of a British prime

:31:11. > :31:16.minister. He has actually -- it will be difficult for the fellow Prime

:31:17. > :31:19.Minister is to sell to their own political establishment. Does he

:31:20. > :31:23.agree with me that future generations will benefit from some

:31:24. > :31:30.of those concessions, particularly those on and marching the single

:31:31. > :31:35.market, guaranteeing our excess, deregulating, and regular eating

:31:36. > :31:40.trade deals. Is he agree that it is not the politics of fear to point

:31:41. > :31:48.out that those who advocate a no vote don't seem to know what a no

:31:49. > :31:54.vote means? If they continually imply that somehow all of the

:31:55. > :31:57.benefits that flow from Europe in terms of jobs, investment,

:31:58. > :32:01.insecurity, will somehow continue to come here when they have swept away

:32:02. > :32:07.the obligations that previous British governments have always

:32:08. > :32:11.accepted? I am grateful for my right honourable friend says. In terms of

:32:12. > :32:16.what... It has been interesting on what some of the four newspapers

:32:17. > :32:19.have set. I will get you one example. Spanish paper has said that

:32:20. > :32:25.British execs in reality beaches new heights yesterday. No other country

:32:26. > :32:29.to its more acceptance in Europe. I am proud of that fact. We do have a

:32:30. > :32:32.different status in Europe, and that has become more special with the

:32:33. > :32:35.changes that we have made. I think that the point that my friend makes

:32:36. > :32:39.is absolutely right. They recognise that there are disadvantages for

:32:40. > :32:42.being in the European Union, I make no bones about that. I can that be

:32:43. > :32:46.but his people in the eye and say this is what it is going to be like

:32:47. > :32:49.if we state them. It was going to be better because of the deal that we

:32:50. > :32:53.have done. The people that are advising us to leave have to spell

:32:54. > :32:58.out what the consequences of leaving are, and I think that the absolute

:32:59. > :33:03.lodestar is that no country has been able to get full access to the

:33:04. > :33:06.single market without accepting either paying into the EU are

:33:07. > :33:11.accepting free movement. If you don't want to accept those two

:33:12. > :33:14.things, I think you have to start accepting that you are not going to

:33:15. > :33:18.get as good of trade and business position as we have today. People

:33:19. > :33:23.that want to be going to start making up their mind. Do you want a

:33:24. > :33:28.Norway deal? A Switzerland deal, a candidate deal? I don't care which

:33:29. > :33:35.deal you like, but we had to tell people because they deserve an

:33:36. > :33:39.answer. May I begin by thinking the Prime Minister for advanced side of

:33:40. > :33:43.the statement. The referendum choice before the electorate is a huge one

:33:44. > :33:48.which will define our relationship with the rest of Europe, and indeed

:33:49. > :33:54.the nations of the United Kingdom. Scotland is a European nation, and

:33:55. > :33:58.the SNP is a European party. We will campaign positively to remain in the

:33:59. > :34:02.EU, hopefully the Prime Minister can confirm today that he will reject

:34:03. > :34:08.the tactics of project fear and make a positive case for remaining part

:34:09. > :34:12.of a reforming European Union. It is hugely important to be a part of the

:34:13. > :34:18.largest market in the world, and to be able to influence its rules and

:34:19. > :34:26.laws. In rolling matters that the -- it matters that we can co-operate

:34:27. > :34:30.for rights. We should also forget the lessons of European history, and

:34:31. > :34:34.not turn our backs on European neighbours who need help at this

:34:35. > :34:43.time to deal with a huge challenge including migration. Mr Speaker.

:34:44. > :34:48.Public opinion in Scotland, a majority, supports membership of the

:34:49. > :34:55.European Union. Every single Scottish MP -- MP supports

:34:56. > :35:04.. Does the Prime Minister have any idea what the consequences would be

:35:05. > :35:09.of Scotland being taken out of the EU against the wish of the Scottish

:35:10. > :35:14.electorate? I want Scotland and the rest of the UK to remain within the

:35:15. > :35:20.European Union. However, if we are forced out of the EU, I am certain

:35:21. > :35:23.about public in Scotland will to read -- demand a referendum on

:35:24. > :35:31.Scottish independence and we will protect our place in Europe. First

:35:32. > :35:35.of all, I can confirm that I will make a positive case. A case based

:35:36. > :35:39.around there and being stronger, safer, and better off. This is a

:35:40. > :35:44.choice. I think that it is very important that we set out the toys,

:35:45. > :35:47.and the alternative, to the British people. This is the most important

:35:48. > :35:50.decision that people are going to make on a political issue

:35:51. > :35:54.potentially and their lifetimes. I don't want anyone to take a step

:35:55. > :35:57.into the dark without properly thinking through what the

:35:58. > :36:01.consequences are. One thing I actually agree with the honourable

:36:02. > :36:04.gentleman about, is that although Brussels and the institutions can be

:36:05. > :36:08.frustrating, we should never forget what brought this institution into

:36:09. > :36:13.being and the first place. Even at the most frustrating time of talks,

:36:14. > :36:16.you look around the table and think of how these countries fought and

:36:17. > :36:21.killed each other for so long. The dialogue that they take together is

:36:22. > :36:30.positive. In terms of the boat in Scotland, this is one UK boat. Hear,

:36:31. > :36:34.hear! -- vote. My right honourable friend has just spoken about

:36:35. > :36:39.national parliaments, democracy, and our sovereignty. In the Bloomberg

:36:40. > :36:43.speech, he made it clear that he regarded our national parliament as

:36:44. > :36:48.being the root of our democracy. Yesterday, he referred to the

:36:49. > :36:55.Aleutian of sovereignty. -- illusion of sovereignty. Will he explain and

:36:56. > :37:00.repudiate that statement and reference to the question before us

:37:01. > :37:05.in relation to our parliament and democracy in the making of our laws,

:37:06. > :37:09.which at this moment in time under the European committees act, are

:37:10. > :37:15.made by a majority vote of other countries, are introduced by it an

:37:16. > :37:19.unelected commission, and are enforced by a court of justice. This

:37:20. > :37:25.is not excepted the only way of out of that is to lead the European

:37:26. > :37:28.Union? First of all, I have huge respect for my European --

:37:29. > :37:33.honourable friend who has campaigned for many years. One thing that he

:37:34. > :37:37.will welcome is that we are allowing the British people a choice to stay

:37:38. > :37:41.in or lead the European Union. Let me confirm that yes, this parliament

:37:42. > :37:45.is sovereign. We chose to join the the European Union and we can choose

:37:46. > :37:50.to be. But me explain exactly what I meant by saying that it would be the

:37:51. > :37:56.illusion of sovereignty. Let me take one issue. We now have safeguards so

:37:57. > :38:00.that British banks, businesses, cannot be discriminated against if

:38:01. > :38:03.we state in the European Union. They can't be discriminated against

:38:04. > :38:06.because we are not in the euro. Where are we to lead, obviously we

:38:07. > :38:10.would not have that protection. They could discriminate against us, and

:38:11. > :38:21.frankly I think they would discriminate against us. Therefore,

:38:22. > :38:24.and that way, we might feel more sovereign, but it would be an

:38:25. > :38:26.illusion of sovereignty because he would not have the power to protect

:38:27. > :38:29.the businesses that protect jobs of my ability and our country. Despite

:38:30. > :38:34.assurances, it is worth saying that this referendum is about the future

:38:35. > :38:38.of our country not the future of a divided conservative party. With the

:38:39. > :38:43.Prime Minister agree with me that it is also not just about Britain's

:38:44. > :38:48.place in the European Union, but also print's place in the world.

:38:49. > :38:52.President Obama has been crystal clear that if Britain were to be the

:38:53. > :38:57.European Union, it would weaken not strengthen the special relationship.

:38:58. > :39:01.The Indians, Chinese, I'm mystified that we are even risking exit from

:39:02. > :39:06.the European Union. We agree with me that if rain in the teacher wants to

:39:07. > :39:11.stand tall in New Delhi, Beijing, Washington, and other mobile

:39:12. > :39:16.cobbles, Britain must continue to stand tall in our own European

:39:17. > :39:22.neighbourhood. I think that she he is right. We should make this

:39:23. > :39:26.decision ourselves as a sovereign nation in a sovereign people. I

:39:27. > :39:30.think that it is worth listening to our friends and listening to what

:39:31. > :39:35.they think is best for our country. I have to say all of the leaders and

:39:36. > :39:41.politicians I have backed around the world. I can't think of any of our

:39:42. > :39:45.friends, Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada. That one is to be

:39:46. > :39:48.the EU. The only person I think that might want us to leave is Vladimir

:39:49. > :39:54.Putin, and I don't think that that is someone who has asked for what

:39:55. > :39:57.the right honourable friend and colleague said about this

:39:58. > :40:01.referendum. I will make a cheeky point that we are implementing the

:40:02. > :40:18.2010 Lib Dem manifesto by holding it. Hear, hear! LAUGHTER Can I ask

:40:19. > :40:23.my right honourable friend, the Prime Minister, to explain to the

:40:24. > :40:32.House into the country exactly what way this deal returns sovereignty

:40:33. > :40:37.over any field of lawmaking to the Houses of Parliament? This deal

:40:38. > :40:44.brings back some welfare powers, immigration powers, bailout powers,

:40:45. > :40:49.but more than that, because it cards us forever out of ever closer union

:40:50. > :40:52.it means that the ratchet of the European Court taking power away

:40:53. > :40:56.from this country cannot happen in future. To those who worry, and

:40:57. > :41:01.people do worry, that if somehow if we vote to remain and, the

:41:02. > :41:04.consequence could be more action and Brussels to try and change the

:41:05. > :41:08.agreements that we have. We have a lot in this house of commons. No

:41:09. > :41:15.power can be passed from Britain to Brussels without a referendum. We

:41:16. > :41:19.have a better deal, and a special status, we have a chance to make

:41:20. > :41:22.sure that we build on what we have to protect our people. We can

:41:23. > :41:32.enhance our prosperity, and that is the we make. Mr Speaker, let me

:41:33. > :41:39.think the Prime Minister for quoting and implementing parts of the plane

:41:40. > :41:44.15 Lib Dem manifesto. I wanted to go to the big picture question, which

:41:45. > :41:47.is about how we influence things in our national interest. I want to

:41:48. > :41:51.draw the Prime Minister of the powerful and that his statement,

:41:52. > :41:55.which is this question of course by being a member of the European Union

:41:56. > :42:00.we don't always get our own way, but as he said to the right honourable

:42:01. > :42:04.member on all of the major issues, whether it is trade or climate

:42:05. > :42:08.change, or terrorism and security, he can tell us because he has been

:42:09. > :42:13.the Prime Minister what does he believe. We have more influence in

:42:14. > :42:18.the European Union or outside? Mr Speaker, surely the answer is more

:42:19. > :42:21.influence inside the European Union, at outside. That is why I

:42:22. > :42:26.passionately believe must remain in the European Union. I am grateful to

:42:27. > :42:30.the right honourable gentleman for what he says. I can't promise to

:42:31. > :42:34.implement any part of the bigger manifesto, but I am glad to have

:42:35. > :42:38.been an assistant there. I actually agree with him. The big picture is

:42:39. > :42:41.this, when it comes to getting things done in the world that can

:42:42. > :42:45.help keep people safe in our country, a bigger, better deal on

:42:46. > :42:49.climate change, do we get more because we are in the EU? Gas.

:42:50. > :42:54.Making sure that we have sanctions against Iran that work and getting a

:42:55. > :42:58.ban on their nuclear programme, to be deducted the EU and other new

:42:59. > :43:02.bodies? Yes absolutely. Making sure that we stand up to Russian

:43:03. > :43:05.aggression in Ukraine. We have been the linchpin between the European

:43:06. > :43:09.Union and the United States of America in making those ancient

:43:10. > :43:12.town. If we had been outside the European Union, we would have been

:43:13. > :43:15.waiting at the end of the fund to make out with the decisions were

:43:16. > :43:23.going to be. Instead, we were making them and them. That is how we get

:43:24. > :43:29.things done for our people. Mr Speaker, according to the website,

:43:30. > :43:35.there is a letter and peering into mile's times which has been bitten

:43:36. > :43:40.by a Chris Hopkins on behalf of organizations across the UK wishing

:43:41. > :43:44.for us to remain. Chris Hopkins is apparently a civil servant, could be

:43:45. > :43:48.Prime Minister tell us who that is, which department does he work for,

:43:49. > :43:55.and what authority does he have as a civil servant to campaign for the

:43:56. > :43:58.remaining? I can answer very simply. He is a civil servant working and

:43:59. > :44:05.number ten, and his authority comes from me. He is doing an excellent

:44:06. > :44:08.job. This is not a free-for-all. The government has a clear view. The

:44:09. > :44:12.government's view is that we should remain an informed European Union.

:44:13. > :44:17.The civil service is able to support the government and not roll. Of

:44:18. > :44:22.course, members of Parliament, members -- common members are middle

:44:23. > :44:25.to make their own decision. The Cabinet is holding back. We have a

:44:26. > :44:27.full throated view that we should put Ford in front of the British

:44:28. > :44:40.people so that they I am tempted to think -- ask the

:44:41. > :44:49.Prime Minister if bonds have more fun. -- blonds. If does he remember

:44:50. > :44:53.what the government did in 2014 about the European arrest warrant,

:44:54. > :44:56.and the conclusions that the European arrest warrant acts as a

:44:57. > :45:02.deterrent for offenders commit to this country. Katie pointed out to

:45:03. > :45:06.his pension secretary, and can he ask the home Secretary to bring the

:45:07. > :45:09.working pension secretary on all the other reasons why Britain is safer

:45:10. > :45:15.and more secure in the European Union. The European arrest warrant

:45:16. > :45:20.is a good case in point. I think that all of us who do have this

:45:21. > :45:23.concern about sovereignty have are concerned about the arrest warrant,

:45:24. > :45:31.but look at what has happened in practice. In 2005, terrorists tried

:45:32. > :45:35.to bomb our city for a second time. One of them escaped and was arrested

:45:36. > :45:38.and returned to Britain within weeks under the European arrest warrant.

:45:39. > :45:43.Before that, it could have taken years. I think that we can all see

:45:44. > :45:47.that the practical application of these changes definitely keeps us

:45:48. > :45:51.more safe. When it comes to this question of fighting terrorism a

:45:52. > :45:53.cross-border crime, obviously people are going to have different

:45:54. > :45:59.opinions. I would urge people, listen to the head of the former

:46:00. > :46:03.director of MIT. Listen to the head of euro poll. These are people who

:46:04. > :46:09.know what they speak of and are very clear. These measures help us to

:46:10. > :46:13.stay safe. Thank you Mr Speaker. Having spent the best part of recess

:46:14. > :46:26.and the Arctic circle with the Royal Marines, I am extremely conscious of

:46:27. > :46:29.the need to ensure that everyone of our serving military personnel will

:46:30. > :46:32.be able to cast their vote to leave or to remain in the forthcoming EU

:46:33. > :46:36.referendum which the Prime Minister has worked so hard to get onto the

:46:37. > :46:39.statue books for us. Can the Prime Minister please confirm that every

:46:40. > :46:43.serving member of our armed forces wherever they are in the world, will

:46:44. > :46:48.be entitled to vote and can they guarantee that they will receive

:46:49. > :46:52.their ballot papers in good time, and confirm hubby will ensure that

:46:53. > :46:57.everyone will be counted? My honourable friend clearly had a more

:46:58. > :47:01.entertaining recess that I did, but I am rather jealous. There were

:47:02. > :47:05.moments that I wish I was in the Arctic Circle, I can tell you. I

:47:06. > :47:13.believe that the arrangements are absolutely the same. As for a

:47:14. > :47:16.general election. We have for months until the referendum, there is

:47:17. > :47:21.plenty of time to put in place the arrangements that she seeks. I pay

:47:22. > :47:25.credits to be Prime Minister for delivering a reference to the

:47:26. > :47:29.British people. I will remember the time that he came to the -- this

:47:30. > :47:36.house and argue to -- but the referendum. He will know that we are

:47:37. > :47:40.extremely disappointed in these benches that we don't have as a

:47:41. > :47:45.result of this deal control over our sovereignty over our borders, or our

:47:46. > :47:48.finances. He had said to in his statement, and I quote, that is

:47:49. > :47:52.simply not enough for those in the meat side to say that it will be all

:47:53. > :47:58.right and that we will work it out. He wants a definite facts. On the of

:47:59. > :48:03.migrants coming to Britain in the United Kingdom, when will they first

:48:04. > :48:14.begin to be eligible for some of the darker benefits for quick. What we

:48:15. > :48:18.have is a phased approach so that over four years they get access to

:48:19. > :48:22.benefits. No access to benefits to start with, and full access only

:48:23. > :48:26.after four years. That is a huge advance. If I compare that to a lack

:48:27. > :48:29.of certainty that we are being offered for people who want to

:48:30. > :48:33.leave, who can't tell us whether they favour a model like Norway or

:48:34. > :48:39.Switzerland, where if they want a trade deal like Canada, or if

:48:40. > :48:42.someone to reclaim a purely WTO position. We need to know the answer

:48:43. > :48:46.to that, because frankly it is only one me know that that people can

:48:47. > :48:56.make a proper judgement about the security of staying in any dangers

:48:57. > :48:59.of getting out. Last week's decision requires it to be changed to be

:49:00. > :49:04.irreversible and legally binding. When will the ratification procedure

:49:05. > :49:08.began? I am afraid that my right honourable friend is not right. It

:49:09. > :49:11.is already legally binding and universal because this is the

:49:12. > :49:16.decision of 28 governments to reach a legally binding decision that is

:49:17. > :49:21.deposited as a legal document at the UN. This can only be reversed if all

:49:22. > :49:26.28 members, including the UK, were to come to a different decision. The

:49:27. > :49:31.document sets out very clearly that into specific areas, the changes

:49:32. > :49:34.that we need to the treaty on closer union and safeguards for businesses

:49:35. > :49:41.and countries outside the euro zone, will be put into the treaty as well.

:49:42. > :49:47.The mayor of London has been touted of the leader of the lease campaigns

:49:48. > :49:52.said yesterday that the burden will be able to negotiate a large number

:49:53. > :50:01.of shady deals at great speed because we used to run the against

:50:02. > :50:04.Empire and the world. Will he invite the Mayor to wake up to the 21st

:50:05. > :50:10.century in which the European economy is six times longer than

:50:11. > :50:14.endure -- took seven years to get Canada to get a trade deal, and with

:50:15. > :50:20.so much uncertainty in the world's economy it would be deeply disrupted

:50:21. > :50:25.to increase the risk for British exporters, British manufacturers,

:50:26. > :50:29.and British shops? Let me say, where I share the frustration of many of

:50:30. > :50:32.those who are questioning whether B should stay in a separate Britain

:50:33. > :50:37.does need trade deals to be signed rapidly. We do find it frustrating

:50:38. > :50:41.that Europe is not moving faster. The Korean free trade agreement has

:50:42. > :50:46.been excellent, and about to push ahead with Japan, Canada, and

:50:47. > :50:49.America, and China. Because of this document all of the single more

:50:50. > :50:58.likely. Where I think that the right honourable lady has a good point is

:50:59. > :51:00.this. You can't sign trade deals with other countries until you have

:51:01. > :51:03.determined the nature of your relationship with the EU from the

:51:04. > :51:06.outside. That would take at least two years, and then you have to

:51:07. > :51:11.think how long does it take to sign trade deals? The Canada deal is in

:51:12. > :51:16.its seventh year, and it is still not put in place. I worry that this

:51:17. > :51:19.is a recipe for uncertainty and risk. Business is literally would

:51:20. > :51:23.not know what the arrangements were for year after year, and British

:51:24. > :51:30.business and jobs, and our country would suffer as a result. I have

:51:31. > :51:35.pamphlets calling for us to address our role in by a referendum on art

:51:36. > :51:41.EU membership may have escaped the Prime minister's attention. He will

:51:42. > :51:47.understand why I am absolutely delighted that he is now provided us

:51:48. > :51:52.an opportunity to resolve this question for a generation. Does he

:51:53. > :51:56.agree with me that if the country votes to remain we must positively

:51:57. > :52:02.commit to the institutions of the European Union? To best ensure its

:52:03. > :52:07.success and to move on from the growth -- grudging tone that has

:52:08. > :52:11.dominated our discourse. Equally, the establishment that he leads must

:52:12. > :52:16.positively engaged with a potential decision to lead -- leave and

:52:17. > :52:22.undertake reasonable contingency planning now. Let me make a couple

:52:23. > :52:26.of points to my honourable friend. First of all, one of the things of

:52:27. > :52:30.this renegotiation does is that it does address some of the principal

:52:31. > :52:35.grudges, that I think that this country has rightly had. Too much of

:52:36. > :52:39.a single currency club, political union, too much in terms of

:52:40. > :52:42.migration and a lack of respect for welfare system. Not enough

:52:43. > :52:46.competitiveness and removing bureaucracy. Having dealt with some

:52:47. > :52:50.of these grudges, it may, yes, P possible make sure that we get more

:52:51. > :52:56.things done that says -- sued us. I also agree that something with them

:52:57. > :53:00.-- agree with the Mayor of London said that we have high-quality

:53:01. > :53:03.British officials at every part of this organizations that we can help

:53:04. > :53:09.to drive the agenda. He is right. This should settle this issue for

:53:10. > :53:12.generation. He is also right that we will be publishing the alternatives

:53:13. > :53:16.to membership so that people can see what they are, and also people can

:53:17. > :53:23.see that there are plans that can be made. The Prime Minister has said

:53:24. > :53:28.that there has been great to perform grant in the renegotiation, why then

:53:29. > :53:30.did the French president say the European Union has not granted the

:53:31. > :53:37.United Kingdom any special dispositions from its rules in a

:53:38. > :53:40.deal struck? He went on to say that the Prime Minister said that the

:53:41. > :53:44.city of London when I have special status compared to Europe other

:53:45. > :53:46.stock exchanges? Why is this is a difference between what the French

:53:47. > :53:51.president is saying and what the Prime Minister is an? What I would

:53:52. > :53:56.say is that the French Foreign Minister said that the agreement

:53:57. > :54:00.with the British is a recognition that there is a differentiated

:54:01. > :54:06.Europe. I have Artie quantity so backend, Hungarian prime ministers,

:54:07. > :54:10.and the former tying commissioner. Also, Fran ois Hollande said this,

:54:11. > :54:13.we have recognised British position not in singing, not in the former

:54:14. > :54:15.tying commissioner. Also, Fran ois Hollande said this, we have

:54:16. > :54:20.recognised British position not in singing, not in a euro zone. She

:54:21. > :54:25.does not -- but it has Britain has a special status in Europe. While the

:54:26. > :54:33.referendum decision is a matter for the British people, as

:54:34. > :54:38.does the Prime Minister recognised concern from the White House,

:54:39. > :54:45.Pentagon, State Department, and international players that have

:54:46. > :54:50.already Bedminster macro mentioned. That's ready to stand together in an

:54:51. > :54:57.unsafe world? I my honourable friend Nixon point. I don't think

:54:58. > :55:05.I think that it is based on the fact that they believe that Britain will

:55:06. > :55:08.be a stronger partner, more able to get things done, more able to bend

:55:09. > :55:12.at the will of other countries that are in America's directions when it

:55:13. > :55:17.comes to solving great prices. If you ask yourself how do we need is

:55:18. > :55:22.to reduce pirate attacks off Somalia, how would go to try to fix

:55:23. > :55:25.the problems of Libya's border. Yes, we can act unilaterally, and there

:55:26. > :55:33.are valuable partnerships and Nato, but these EU producers are worth a

:55:34. > :55:36.lot to. The views that the pound has slipped to its lowest level in seven

:55:37. > :55:39.years on the news that the honourable member has joined the

:55:40. > :55:43.league campaign, are the just getting a glimpse of the major

:55:44. > :55:50.economic upheaval that could follow if we leave the European Union? Is

:55:51. > :55:54.it's not a timely reminder that the long-term best interest of our

:55:55. > :55:58.country should come ahead of party politicking or personal ambition?

:55:59. > :56:01.What I would say to the right honourable gentleman is that I think

:56:02. > :56:06.that it is important that we looked at in detail the full economic

:56:07. > :56:10.impact of our staying in the EU were choosing to leave the EU. We will be

:56:11. > :56:15.setting out that approach in the weeks and months to come so that

:56:16. > :56:22.people can see what the dangers are, but the risks are, and also at the

:56:23. > :56:30.cases. Don't be, and agriculture, fishing, and energy policies do

:56:31. > :56:35.damage to domestic producers and the... What can we do about these

:56:36. > :56:43.unfairness is if we stay in the European Union? We have made a lot

:56:44. > :56:47.of progress in recent years. We have made big reforms to the common

:56:48. > :56:52.fisheries policy is. I would suggest, I know that he studies

:56:53. > :56:57.these things very closely, of course why we have a deficit with the EU on

:56:58. > :57:02.goods, we have a substantial surplus when it comes to services. We have

:57:03. > :57:06.to think about the future, and how we safeguard those services as well

:57:07. > :57:13.as making sure that opposition and the single market is open. Opening

:57:14. > :57:16.up the EU market in areas like energy and digital services could

:57:17. > :57:22.create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the future. The Prime Minister

:57:23. > :57:26.agree that remaining a part of the EU will give the UK a strong voice

:57:27. > :57:29.in making sure that the completion of that single market happens, and

:57:30. > :57:34.that the best deal for British businesses and jobs? I think that

:57:35. > :57:39.the honourable me lady makes an important part -- point. The

:57:40. > :57:50.declaration on I think that this is an important

:57:51. > :57:54.point. If we work there, not only with the EU continue to exist and

:57:55. > :57:58.have a big impact on our lives, it would probably head and a very

:57:59. > :58:02.different and more protectionist direction. That would actually

:58:03. > :58:07.affect us. And in many ways quite badly. Thank you Mr Speaker. My

:58:08. > :58:12.right honourable friend will know that have been deluged with advice.

:58:13. > :58:17.On the subject of an ever closer union, can he give us a concrete

:58:18. > :58:20.example of a single easy case that will provide a different outcome if

:58:21. > :58:25.the measures that he agreed last week had been agreed at the time?

:58:26. > :58:28.The ever closer union has been mentioned in a series of judgement

:58:29. > :58:32.by the European Court of Justice. There are two things that we have

:58:33. > :58:35.agreed that I think we'll have an impact. Obviously, the most

:58:36. > :58:40.eye-catching is the fact, and I quote from paragraph one on page

:58:41. > :58:44.ten, is that the substance of these agreements will be incorporated in

:58:45. > :58:47.the treaties and the time of his next position. It will make clear

:58:48. > :58:51.that the references to ever closer union do not apply to the United

:58:52. > :58:53.Kingdom. That is a call-back for us, but in many ways it is as

:58:54. > :58:58.significant and something that many other countries do not want is the

:58:59. > :59:01.next paragraph that says the references in the treaty and the

:59:02. > :59:07.preambles are creating an ever closer union, do not offer a legal

:59:08. > :59:10.basis for extending the scope of any provision of the treaties or other

:59:11. > :59:15.EU secondary legislation. This redefinition of ever closer union I

:59:16. > :59:18.think is really quite a fundamental change to the way that this

:59:19. > :59:22.organisation has worked. One way to think of it is that there have been

:59:23. > :59:26.two threats to our sovereignty, one from treaty change passing powers

:59:27. > :59:30.for Britain to Brussels, that can't happen now because of our block. The

:59:31. > :59:35.second one is using terms like the ever closer union to make sure that

:59:36. > :59:39.the EU grows its powers. It can't be done now that we have the strength.

:59:40. > :59:45.One of the reason why this deal took whatever it was this because not

:59:46. > :59:48.everybody likes us. It is not meaningless words, it is worth that

:59:49. > :59:53.mean something and matter, and make a difference.

:59:54. > :00:00.The Prime Minister was elected the 37% of the ball. Which means that

:00:01. > :00:03.even a half these people are to vote in, then this referendum can only be

:00:04. > :00:09.one of the faces of people have voted Labour mass and D,... There

:00:10. > :00:14.isn't a reasonable position that these people will be more interested

:00:15. > :00:19.in the of the case of the case for Europe, then the factual arguments

:00:20. > :00:22.of Conservative Party, entertaining though they are. What is the promise

:00:23. > :00:25.of going to put forth that forth that case, that part of the promise

:00:26. > :00:29.of going to put forth that case, that positive case for Europe? --

:00:30. > :00:34.one Prime Minister. I do not want to upset him because I'm hoping is

:00:35. > :00:37.going to be supportive. I will say in the speech that I have made

:00:38. > :00:42.today, I have sent out a positive case. It is the case of someone who

:00:43. > :00:46.is Euro sceptical in the genuine sense, I am sceptical about all

:00:47. > :00:53.organisations. All engagement. We should always question whether

:00:54. > :00:57.organisations work for us and be doubtful about these things. That is

:00:58. > :01:02.what is being sceptical means. I come at this from someone who had

:01:03. > :01:05.their doubts about Brussels and the EU, but I have a clear eyed about

:01:06. > :01:11.what is best for Britain. If others want to argue this from a more

:01:12. > :01:15.positive stance about the nature of the EU, fine. Go for it. It is up to

:01:16. > :01:21.everyone to make their own case. I will make my case in a clear

:01:22. > :01:32.determination of what is in Britain's interest. I think I did

:01:33. > :01:37.that today. Can he tell the House, and his estimations, by how much the

:01:38. > :01:40.welfare changes will reduce immigration for the EU in the coming

:01:41. > :01:45.years could tell anybody looks at this, and nose at the moment you can

:01:46. > :01:49.come from the EU and get up to ?10,000 in and work welfare

:01:50. > :01:53.benefits, and the pressure, knows that that is a big incentive to come

:01:54. > :01:57.to Britain. Many people said we would never be able to get changes

:01:58. > :02:03.to in work benefits, and we have got those changes. If we pass this

:02:04. > :02:08.legislation, were they going to see in 2017 a seven-year period, up to

:02:09. > :02:12.2024 will be restricting these welfare claims. That plus all the

:02:13. > :02:16.changes that the Home Secretary has disappeared, and many cases

:02:17. > :02:19.reversing the CJ judgement. They actually restored to our country

:02:20. > :02:28.powers over welfare, powers over immigration Baek a real difference.

:02:29. > :02:32.Best I can. We also support for the reform and will campaign

:02:33. > :02:36.accordingly. If you're to live, what would happen to mention such as

:02:37. > :02:42.convergent funding which is provided by the amounts of money for poor

:02:43. > :02:46.areas? I think the short answer is if we were to leave the EU, and we

:02:47. > :02:51.would not be able to get those funds, which I made a big difference

:02:52. > :02:58.in parts of Wales, and parts of England. In other parts of our

:02:59. > :03:01.country. I also think, I'm someone who was a kid EU but it out and we

:03:02. > :03:04.achieved that historic decision to cut it, but they wish to befriend

:03:05. > :03:10.that some of the work that the has done, in poor countries and other

:03:11. > :03:14.parts of the EU, is actually have economies to grow. They are

:03:15. > :03:18.customers of ours, and so what is Bulgaria, Romania, or Greece or

:03:19. > :03:27.whatever, the economic development is in our interests. -- the economic

:03:28. > :03:31.development. In January, academic bill to try and protect our children

:03:32. > :03:39.from portable... I pulled the bill this month after discussions, their

:03:40. > :03:41.official public this is that piece of legislation. Thousands of

:03:42. > :03:45.directors saw rescued out from Brussels, every gear, that this

:03:46. > :03:49.government has to comply with. Therefore I will be built. We cannot

:03:50. > :03:52.even protect our own children on something as fundamental as this

:03:53. > :03:59.because we do not have the control without the permission of Brussels.

:04:00. > :04:04.I'll look carefully at the case. I know the state can be frustrated,

:04:05. > :04:09.and every of foam filled miniature and mattresses, we've taken steps

:04:10. > :04:13.over and above what other countries are doing, which has kept our own

:04:14. > :04:16.people safer. The other thing I would say is there are a lot of

:04:17. > :04:21.different figures going around about this. And she looks in the library,

:04:22. > :04:28.borrow from being the topic this, it is much more like 15% of loans that

:04:29. > :04:34.come to us from this direction. -- loss. And I commend the parameter

:04:35. > :04:37.his statement and congratulate him on the success of persuading his EU

:04:38. > :04:47.counterpart is signed up for renegotiation. Will he accept gold

:04:48. > :04:51.renegotiations may have been successful, it is not central to how

:04:52. > :04:55.most people make up their minds? When we belong to a European single

:04:56. > :05:00.market, that is where a digg account figure to this country, is a better

:05:01. > :05:03.in or out? What wear basic facing huge insecurities and badges, I

:05:04. > :05:09.would bet off alongside our friends or outside on our own? And we face

:05:10. > :05:14.huge challenges like climate change and the refugee crisis, I would go

:05:15. > :05:17.working with others or isolated on their own? Will he join with me in

:05:18. > :05:27.our shared ambition for a Britannic Europe and for the pond ambition

:05:28. > :05:30.behind him was what -- blonde. . Renegotiation was aimed at dealing

:05:31. > :05:35.with some of the legitimate businesses that we have had in the

:05:36. > :05:40.UK for many years about the way it was the EU work. We thought it was

:05:41. > :05:44.too much of a single currency club, too much political giving, kind is

:05:45. > :05:48.about competitiveness and not enough production in terms of welfare and

:05:49. > :05:51.immigration. I believe this renegotiation and agreement goes

:05:52. > :05:56.long way to lose dealing with each of those problems. Now the time for

:05:57. > :06:01.the even bigger argument about the future of our country and what sort

:06:02. > :06:06.of country we want to live in poor heart cells, children, and grilled

:06:07. > :06:09.children. Of the points that he makes the printer being shown and

:06:10. > :06:14.wealth, getting things done, I'll try to our membership with Nato

:06:15. > :06:17.matters, our relationship with the UN, and our relationship with the EU

:06:18. > :06:27.gives a force of power to get things done. These fences are rightly proud

:06:28. > :06:34.of our record in the job in unemployment, the... -- these pages.

:06:35. > :06:40.Production in our deficit. During his many meetings, did he find

:06:41. > :06:45.anybody, even a single person, am I suggest we will get better terms on

:06:46. > :06:53.our exit to achieve even better outside the cure Community? --

:06:54. > :06:57.European Community. I think there is goodwill towards Britain, because of

:06:58. > :07:01.the contribution we make to the EU. There is understanding other

:07:02. > :07:06.problems or difficulties that we have had. Therefore, with a huge of

:07:07. > :07:14.the pharmacy and travel and meetings, it has been possible to

:07:15. > :07:18.get a good agreement. I do not believe if we were to take over the

:07:19. > :07:28.table of an eye for a second one, I don't think it is morally feasible.

:07:29. > :07:33., work on the equalization is possible, which discriminated

:07:34. > :07:36.unfairly the British citizens. -- spouse rules. Can ask him to

:07:37. > :07:40.recommend the work of the Minister for John? I would manage to get on

:07:41. > :07:50.the job, he has done six. He still retained his sanity. Almost. On the

:07:51. > :07:55.other big issue, the migration crisis, the British head of your

:07:56. > :07:59.poll said today that there were 5000 GIs were now within the European

:08:00. > :08:04.Union area. Many have come from the external border of the EU. Whether

:08:05. > :08:11.this amount has been given to Greece and Italy in particular is tried

:08:12. > :08:20.until -- tried to do with protecting the border? Identifies remarks about

:08:21. > :08:24.the Europe minister. His eyes were set for a minute there. But he has

:08:25. > :08:31.been done the job for six years as the nation was well. The point about

:08:32. > :08:34.spousal visas as important, for many years, we are given a dismayed to be

:08:35. > :08:38.sorted out and for many years to EU stood back, if you want the

:08:39. > :08:44.collectibles, change her own rules and here we have managed to do that.

:08:45. > :08:49.In terms of the help that were given to Italy and Greece, the discussions

:08:50. > :08:54.and Brussels were very intense because the numbers really do have

:08:55. > :09:00.to be reduced radically and that is why I strongly support and Britain

:09:01. > :09:03.will contribute to the maritime operation the last song Nato support

:09:04. > :09:08.as well as EU support. To try and bring together Greece and Turkey

:09:09. > :09:13.with a comma information picture, common intelligence what is

:09:14. > :09:17.happening. These, banks operating in the area. Without that, there will

:09:18. > :09:22.not be the right chance of getting the situation under control. For

:09:23. > :09:30.decades, British ministers who had involvement with Europe at, to

:09:31. > :09:36.exaggerate to affluence we bring and conceal our inability to achieve

:09:37. > :09:39.British interests. Is that why it took freedom of information request

:09:40. > :09:46.to established over the last two decades, Britain has voted against

:09:47. > :09:52.72 measures in the European Council? And has been defeated 72 times, and

:09:53. > :10:00.the patient of the accelerating? It would make the mistake to take the

:10:01. > :10:05.risk of remaining in the EU, how many defeats that the Prime Minister

:10:06. > :10:15.is suspect in the next two decades? The frustrations and challenges of

:10:16. > :10:23.being a member of his organisation, there are challenges. The research

:10:24. > :10:27.that I have seen his deep analysis of whether a country that its

:10:28. > :10:32.position, and shows that Britain does in 90% of cases, which even I

:10:33. > :10:37.think operates the Germans. I did for myself what we were hard we can

:10:38. > :10:44.get things done. -- I have seen for myself. If we are outside the single

:10:45. > :10:48.market, the same countries, without us, will write the rules. We will

:10:49. > :10:52.then have to comply with them, when we show that the government would

:10:53. > :10:55.have no say over what they are. That to me is the illusions of

:10:56. > :11:02.sovereignty rather than real sovereignty. I'll accept the

:11:03. > :11:09.symbolism of removing the phrase ever closer union. I do think the

:11:10. > :11:16.Prime Minister opposes House to give at least one two examples of where

:11:17. > :11:21.the sole legal basis for a decision. I am happy to read to her, but it

:11:22. > :11:31.has been used in a series of cases before us. That's happy to write to

:11:32. > :11:37.her. On the question of Article 50, cannot first one out that it did not

:11:38. > :11:42.exist in the treatise until the Lisbon Treaty which my friend used

:11:43. > :11:46.to oppose and not he agrees with. Can I point out there are many ways

:11:47. > :11:53.of leading the European gigging, that might article 50. Date that the

:11:54. > :11:57.power to bind himself and to the Article 50 from work, can he give it

:11:58. > :12:00.some thought rather than committed himself to a policy that he does not

:12:01. > :12:08.support? The point I would make to him is that like it or like it not,

:12:09. > :12:11.I don't particularly like it, but the Treaty of the European and you

:12:12. > :12:16.can set style of the way that you leave. It is called article 50. --

:12:17. > :12:21.European Union. I think it should read it. I find it odd that if you

:12:22. > :12:25.want to leave, leave. If you want to stay, stay. But the idea of going to

:12:26. > :12:28.leave the try and half day, I don't think the British public will

:12:29. > :12:32.understand it, I don't think our European partners would understand,

:12:33. > :12:38.I'm at a loss to understand it. I thought we wanted a referendum to

:12:39. > :12:45.make a choice. Posted by Minister think that President Clinton would

:12:46. > :12:50.drop the secret... -- President Putin, would he rather see Bridget

:12:51. > :12:57.Breakaway for the EU and to seek your potentially break apart? I

:12:58. > :13:02.think it is true that tournament presented like to see disunity in

:13:03. > :13:07.the West. -- Vladimir Putin. Whether it is about actions of Sarah

:13:08. > :13:15.Corporation conduct another issue. There's no in my mind -- doubt in my

:13:16. > :13:20.mind, that the allies that there is between the Baltic states, Poland,

:13:21. > :13:25.who see it first-hand the problems being created by Putin, and

:13:26. > :13:28.countries like Britain is always in my view should stand up to

:13:29. > :13:33.aggression. But that a life together with the French and Germans, and has

:13:34. > :13:37.made your's stronger and if we were not there, I don't think you can

:13:38. > :13:42.guarantee that would be the case. I do not believe that is an

:13:43. > :13:48.overstepping of the position. In October, Lord Rove said nothing is

:13:49. > :13:53.going to happen and become how to cure in the first five years

:13:54. > :13:57.probably. There will be no change. I hope my friend finds that ritual

:13:58. > :14:00.from the head of the campaign to stay in. What he agree that it is

:14:01. > :14:03.inevitable after the Vote Leave, there will be a period of informal

:14:04. > :14:08.discussions before the formal process is driven? I have to say I

:14:09. > :14:14.have great respect for my Honorable friend who is leading a campaign

:14:15. > :14:17.with great vim and vigour and passion. But surely if you want

:14:18. > :14:23.Britain to leave the EU, you want things to change, rather than not

:14:24. > :14:26.change. The truth is that section, article 50 is the only way to leave

:14:27. > :14:32.and what it says is that if you spend two years negotiating your

:14:33. > :14:39.status outside of the EU, and that they cannot be agreed, at the end of

:14:40. > :14:43.the figures, you leave. That is all of the 27 members agree to extend.

:14:44. > :14:46.That's unless. If you do not have a deal, he don't know what your

:14:47. > :14:51.relationship is with a single market, with a 50 days countries

:14:52. > :14:56.covered by the Trader Joe's, or very much. My argument is that do not

:14:57. > :14:59.take that risk. Stay in a before European Union. But the delayed

:15:00. > :15:09.campaign will have to do is explain what it is that you want was to

:15:10. > :15:13.left. -- the lead campaign. Cannot they be Prime Minister for his

:15:14. > :15:21.detailed statement. Does he accept that with Arlen and -- Ireland

:15:22. > :15:25.connected, to a UK exit of the European you can would have

:15:26. > :15:33.replications for Ireland, North or South. There may be some initial

:15:34. > :15:38.financial savings for the UK, but huge losses are likely to follow. We

:15:39. > :15:43.see them impact today are sterling. Yeah, we know that the financial

:15:44. > :15:49.impact would be negative and slow. Mr Speaker, with recent polls

:15:50. > :15:53.suggesting that 75% of people in Northern Ireland want to stay in the

:15:54. > :15:57.EU, as the Prime Minister agree with me that a UK exit from the EU will

:15:58. > :15:59.have detrimental impact on Northern Ireland's economy and is one peace

:16:00. > :16:18.process? In terms of Northern Ireland,

:16:19. > :16:22.everybody and other islands have a vote, every vote counted. I would

:16:23. > :16:25.urge people to exercise their democratic right. I look forward to

:16:26. > :16:31.going to another island as part of the campaign to talk directly to

:16:32. > :16:35.people why I believe we should stay. And I listened that some people

:16:36. > :16:41.believe that our European neighbours want to do is down at every turn, is

:16:42. > :16:45.a credible to suppose that the selfsame people, if we were to

:16:46. > :16:49.leave, could believe that our phone partners, would follow themselves to

:16:50. > :16:54.give us free access to the single market among which is the vital

:16:55. > :17:02.foundation for our business and industry to trek across the world?

:17:03. > :17:06.-- trade across. I feel that very deeply, because having time to build

:17:07. > :17:09.up the good will for a special status for breaded, within the EU

:17:10. > :17:21.which we have achieved, I do not believe that will would be dead...

:17:22. > :17:28.-- be there. The option of that risk is to stay in the reform EU rather

:17:29. > :17:35.than to take the leap in the dark. Have the Prime Minister Alize the

:17:36. > :17:39.grave consequences for the UK -- outlined the grave, but perhaps

:17:40. > :17:42.reflect on the wisdom of the leadership decisions that led us to

:17:43. > :17:48.be facing those consequences in a few months' time. Besides I want to

:17:49. > :17:51.leave hapless sovereignty and control at the heart of the

:17:52. > :17:59.arguments. That's the size. Does he agree with me that it a position

:18:00. > :18:03.where we are a decision-maker at the timetable, will be moving from

:18:04. > :18:06.position of being a rule-making to a protected and that is not

:18:07. > :18:13.sovereignty, it is not controlled, and it is not the best future for

:18:14. > :18:18.the United Kingdom? I do not agree with what the gentleman said at the

:18:19. > :18:22.first part. I think it is time for a referendum. I think we had too many

:18:23. > :18:27.traders passing through this house, where there was no referendum.

:18:28. > :18:31.Whether it was more strict under the Conservatives or Lisbon, under

:18:32. > :18:34.labor. I think that sack People's faith and our democracy and our

:18:35. > :18:39.accountability. I remember the moment when Tony Blair stood here

:18:40. > :18:43.and said let that of the joint and all the rest and without a

:18:44. > :18:46.referendum is coming. Then it was taken away. It is right to have this

:18:47. > :18:50.referendum and we should not be frightened of asking the people

:18:51. > :18:54.interested the people, but I agree with him that if you want to have to

:18:55. > :18:58.question how it would have greater control, greater influence, it is by

:18:59. > :19:04.being in there helping to make the rules, rather than outside simply

:19:05. > :19:07.taking the rules. Can congratulate the Prime Minister for securing a

:19:08. > :19:12.written the special status that he talked about earlier? Does he agree

:19:13. > :19:17.with me, with the debate so far is that those who want leave your are

:19:18. > :19:21.completely unable to agree on an alternative arrangement for breaded

:19:22. > :19:30.and the EU, that we get the same sort of economic benefits that his

:19:31. > :19:36.negotiation skills? What today's discussions have revealed not only

:19:37. > :19:40.that there is no agreement about what Britain by a future looks like

:19:41. > :19:45.outside of the EU, but there is an agreement about whether we really

:19:46. > :19:48.should leave, some that people wanted to both league in over a

:19:49. > :19:53.different bill. That's not an agreement about how we should leave.

:19:54. > :19:56.What the Article 50, or some other process that can be followed.

:19:57. > :19:59.Unclear, the only way I leave. What the Article 50, or some other

:20:00. > :20:01.process that can be follow. Unclear, the only way of event is to article

:20:02. > :20:08.50. There is no second renegotiation, second referendum,

:20:09. > :20:14.the torch is in or mean. -- the choice is in or out. Can the Prime

:20:15. > :20:18.Minister tell us beyond the areas which are specifically addressed in

:20:19. > :20:25.the deal agreed last week, and which ways his government plans have been

:20:26. > :20:29.constrained by European legislation? There's no doubt that we do face

:20:30. > :20:34.concerns because the way the single market works is a common set of rows

:20:35. > :20:39.that has to be agreed. As it's been said, was and I was cannot wait.

:20:40. > :20:47.That's a common set up rules. There are occasions where we lose a vote,

:20:48. > :20:49.and we are concerned by EU regulation and legislation. The

:20:50. > :20:56.question that they would be to put in a very hard-headed politics and

:20:57. > :21:01.if you are outside, does that give you the full control that you seek?

:21:02. > :21:03.Does not produce up to trade with Europe and accepted rules, don't

:21:04. > :21:09.think I've done is remove yourself from the conversation and take away

:21:10. > :21:15.your vote. Common sense that this will set up the issue of her

:21:16. > :21:17.generation. I am blessed with five grandchildren. I believe it is in

:21:18. > :21:23.their blessed interest that I should be voted to remain within the EU.

:21:24. > :21:28.That's part of. There is another generation that is some concern.

:21:29. > :21:33.Thousands of people are paid UK taxes, an excellent insurance over

:21:34. > :21:36.the years. They are now living in other parts of Europe. My right

:21:37. > :21:40.honourable friend knows that I represent the interests of the

:21:41. > :21:48.people. They're very frightened, and can he tell them what will happen if

:21:49. > :21:51.we leave the European Union? I am grateful that he has decided to

:21:52. > :21:55.support the case for remaining in the EU. I think he raises an

:21:56. > :22:00.important point. We often look at free Will Win in terms of people's

:22:01. > :22:03.decisions to come here. We do also need to think about the many British

:22:04. > :22:07.people would have chosen to work, live, retire and other parts of the

:22:08. > :22:11.EU. The short answer to this question is that I can tell the

:22:12. > :22:15.window be like if the state. But I cannot be absolutely certain if we

:22:16. > :22:19.leave. It would depend on a complex and difficult glaciation cannot be

:22:20. > :22:23.there be a lot of uncertainty. I would urge other people or the right

:22:24. > :22:28.to vote to make that exercise that right and we should think about

:22:29. > :22:30.people in Gibraltar, who are all applicable in this referendum.

:22:31. > :22:42.That's able to vote. To speak plainly about what he

:22:43. > :22:47.believes is right for our country. As it develops the argument, when

:22:48. > :22:52.the bear and mind that nine American people voted Labour and general

:22:53. > :22:56.election? And the sympathies and values don't actually live with his

:22:57. > :23:04.party and a need to develop a conversation with them as well. I

:23:05. > :23:09.take on his point. This is not a party political issue. This is not

:23:10. > :23:12.something for all people, all voters to get involved in. They might vote

:23:13. > :23:16.conservative and a general election, but decide to vote in, or out, and

:23:17. > :23:24.dinner with labor a liberal Democrat. -- ditto. This should be

:23:25. > :23:27.added to the -- giant democratic society and accountability. We are

:23:28. > :23:33.asking question about something, this is a new sovereign decision by

:23:34. > :23:37.the British people. That huge sovereign decision. I would say to

:23:38. > :23:42.Labour voters to decide what you think that government, that rule, or

:23:43. > :23:45.that law. Think about the future of your country, and think about the

:23:46. > :23:53.big picture and then make the choice. I am always nice. The Prime

:23:54. > :23:56.Minister said that crime should be at the forefront of our thoughts

:23:57. > :24:00.when we are putting in the referendum. And the Prime Minister

:24:01. > :24:08.tell us how many crimes were committed in the UK by EU nationals

:24:09. > :24:13.in the given for free movement of people came into effect, and how

:24:14. > :24:18.many were committed by the EU nationals last year, and how many of

:24:19. > :24:21.the EU nationals were imbued in the UK prison system before free but

:24:22. > :24:27.when of people came into operation and how many there are now? I'm sure

:24:28. > :24:30.he has that information. Debbie has not got it, perhaps he can write to

:24:31. > :24:35.me with the information. That's if he doesn't have it. I do not have

:24:36. > :24:39.all the figures, but I can say because of a very harboured by the

:24:40. > :24:44.Home Secretary, will be able to Barbara, and so, too better. That

:24:45. > :24:49.hardware. We are solving problems that the EasyJet has put another

:24:50. > :24:54.way. As for prisoners, the prisoner transfer agreement that was

:24:55. > :24:59.negotiated will mean that we can get for prisoners out of our prisons and

:25:00. > :25:07.into the jails. Outside of the EU, they'll be far more difficult to

:25:08. > :25:12.achieve. -- that will be. I don't remember who was selected the

:25:13. > :25:25.European Parliament in 1979. -- I think I was the only member. Without

:25:26. > :25:33.a lot more sense than itself. We were on opposite sides. I was in

:25:34. > :25:38.favour of a gift membership, his father was in favour of membership.

:25:39. > :25:42.-- against membership. I changed my mind. At the two gears in the

:25:43. > :25:53.European Parliament, I saw the benefits. -- after two years. We're

:25:54. > :26:00.talking about Senate. -- Senate. Were talking about restructuring the

:26:01. > :26:04.social effect. And people work in the auto industry. I think

:26:05. > :26:10.anonymously from working with people and other nationalities, the hope is

:26:11. > :26:17.to emphasise again and again the importance of internationalism. I

:26:18. > :26:37.think it for her honesty. -- bank. I remember campaigning... Head be

:26:38. > :26:42.sitting here and we would have been able to hear from him and for the

:26:43. > :26:52.Maryland. That she would be. -- Mayor of London. Why does the Prime

:26:53. > :26:59.Minister Bank on so much? -- the bank on? So much about these

:27:00. > :27:06.European migration, after the polls have a wonderful record of, care and

:27:07. > :27:11.offer benefits. As a much more worried that Mickens, born an

:27:12. > :27:15.integer from North Africa and the Middle East that the diamonds have

:27:16. > :27:19.any idea what proportion of these people were exercise their right to

:27:20. > :27:23.come here and once they get the German passports? If we remain in,

:27:24. > :27:31.the as useful as a Macedonian strain to stop them. -- strain to stop. I

:27:32. > :27:37.promised to go on for the next four months, and to go on considerably

:27:38. > :27:41.less. I think he makes a good point. We have the advantage of being

:27:42. > :27:47.outside second, so that foreign nationals, to other countries don't

:27:48. > :27:50.have the automatic access to the UK. But he stopped coming in. As what

:27:51. > :27:55.would you European citizens who we think are ever of the country. The

:27:56. > :28:01.factual answer to this question is if you look at refugees and others

:28:02. > :28:07.who have arrived in Germany, after ten years, only around 242% have

:28:08. > :28:17.German citizenship. The evidence to date is there is no huge risk of

:28:18. > :28:21.early to the table. -- 2.2 oppression. The more likely to have

:28:22. > :28:25.are involved to try and stop the flow question the flow of migrants

:28:26. > :28:30.in the first place and would have ingrained now. With this is the lead

:28:31. > :28:35.operation between Greece and Italy is partly because of the UK

:28:36. > :28:38.intervention into this debate. Taken by the French, with the times,

:28:39. > :28:46.because around the table would get things done. Thus the Prime Minister

:28:47. > :28:49.agreed with me that the claim that staying with the European you can

:28:50. > :28:53.would make an attack on our shores more likely, is deeply irresponsible

:28:54. > :34:12.and factually wrong? The Prime Minister has said in a

:34:13. > :34:17.statement that we are to make a final decision. So the one sentence

:34:18. > :34:22.of the statement I agree with a final decision to be made in June as

:34:23. > :34:26.to whether we stay with the valve body on whether we leave and make

:34:27. > :34:34.our own pot -- pass. As a government's policy basically always

:34:35. > :34:40.keep a fair punishment the force? -- finding something worse. Obviously,

:34:41. > :34:43.my friend and I have a profound disagreement about this issue. I

:34:44. > :34:47.respect his views because he has held them in good faith for many

:34:48. > :34:54.years. And until my view is that we need to form for years. I'm sure we

:34:55. > :34:58.can respect each other and the months of debate ahead. Don't think

:34:59. > :35:02.I would say by doing to take issue with my Honorable friend is about

:35:03. > :35:06.manifesto delivered. On a run through whole thing but we said we

:35:07. > :35:12.will legislate for a referendum and we delivered. Which I will protect

:35:13. > :35:16.our economy from the eurozone, and wanted to pursue power for was from

:35:17. > :35:19.Brussels cover in the sediment. One problem is to work together to block

:35:20. > :35:24.unwanted legislation covering the settlement. The one and two ever

:35:25. > :35:27.closer union. We'll will ensure that defence policies national security

:35:28. > :35:33.remains firmly under British national control. We assisted the EU

:35:34. > :35:36.migrants want to claim tax credits must live it here and contribute it

:35:37. > :35:40.for four years covered in the settlement. Time and time again, we

:35:41. > :35:44.also noticed manifesto and I'm proud of them in. I'm proud of the team to

:35:45. > :35:49.put together and implement the good. I say let's have this vigorous

:35:50. > :35:50.argument, let's not pretend that we have not delivered the manifesto

:35:51. > :36:21.that was in front of. The bosses of those companies aren't

:36:22. > :36:25.saying that very publicly, I would invite the Prime Minister during

:36:26. > :36:29.this election campaign to encourage them to talk to those people whose

:36:30. > :36:34.jobs depend on that investment, to say what would happen if we left

:36:35. > :36:43.Europe, because they tell me they would leave Britain. My message to

:36:44. > :36:48.businesses is if you have a view, make sure you tell people and talk

:36:49. > :36:56.to customers, and your suppliers. Above all, talk to your employees,

:36:57. > :37:00.and your staff. This issue is so important, the business voice, large

:37:01. > :37:04.and small, is very much in favour of Britain staying. Many of them have

:37:05. > :37:09.said generous things about this renegotiation because they recognise

:37:10. > :37:11.the dangers, particularly in the area of safeguarding ourselves

:37:12. > :37:15.against distillation, because we aren't in the Euro, given that I

:37:16. > :37:19.hope business and enterprise will speak clearly in the next few

:37:20. > :37:29.months. Much of the protection of the Euro outs in this is set out.

:37:30. > :37:33.But this requires nothing, as far as I can tell, nothing more than the

:37:34. > :37:38.discussion to be held about the UK's concerns. Not even European Council.

:37:39. > :37:45.It leaves Eurozone members free to enforce its will bike UMT. So, can

:37:46. > :37:51.the Prime Minister explain what beyond the discussion, which can be

:37:52. > :37:54.ignored, has been achieved by the safeguard mechanism -- QMV. I can

:37:55. > :37:59.answer that, is an important question. There are two things, it

:38:00. > :38:04.is a set of principles set out on section A on economic governance,

:38:05. > :38:07.these principles of non-discrimination, no cost, no

:38:08. > :38:10.disadvantage, and crucially in paragraph four, a real concern to

:38:11. > :38:15.the Bank of England, I know it will be a concern to his committee, is

:38:16. > :38:19.making clear that the financial stability of member states whose

:38:20. > :38:23.currency is not the Euro is matter for their own authorities and

:38:24. > :38:27.budgetary responsibilities. These principles are very important. What

:38:28. > :38:31.I think is exciting is that not only have these been setup for the first

:38:32. > :38:35.time, not only has Europe accepted for the first time that there are

:38:36. > :38:39.other currencies in the EU but these changes will be incorporated into

:38:40. > :38:45.the treaties. The mechanism, if you like, is over and above new way of

:38:46. > :38:48.making sure issues are raised, should we want to, at the level of

:38:49. > :38:52.the European Council, a protection we don't have today, but I think

:38:53. > :38:57.making the treaty, making the principle is part of the treaty,

:38:58. > :39:02.already an international legally binding decision, is hugely

:39:03. > :39:05.important and people on behalf of financial services and the Bank of

:39:06. > :39:10.England and others, they will recognise this is important progress

:39:11. > :39:15.for Britain. There is still plenty that divides myself and the Prime

:39:16. > :39:18.Minister politically, but on this, in the national interest, I think

:39:19. > :39:24.he's right to be campaigning for Britain to remain in the European

:39:25. > :39:28.Union. I want to put a quote to him, leaving would cause at least some

:39:29. > :39:33.business uncertainty, while embroiling the government for

:39:34. > :39:36.several years in a fiddly process of negotiating new arrangements. So

:39:37. > :39:43.diverging energy from the real problems of this country, that was

:39:44. > :39:48.on February the 7th. The Mayor of London was right to seven days ago,

:39:49. > :39:53.wasn't he? What I would say to the honourable gentleman and everyone is

:39:54. > :39:57.that we have really got to examine what these alternatives are, and how

:39:58. > :40:01.much uncertainty there would be, how long these processes would take. I

:40:02. > :40:05.think therein lies the importance of this decision, for businesses,

:40:06. > :40:10.families, people's prospects as well up and down the country. Does the

:40:11. > :40:15.promised a group of me that one of the key benefits of his agreement is

:40:16. > :40:18.to give legal clarity about Britain's special status within the

:40:19. > :40:21.EU? You would be aware of the uncertainties that have been for

:40:22. > :40:26.those advising the government about the law in the past, does he also

:40:27. > :40:31.agree that it is wrong to say that it is not legally binding, it is.

:40:32. > :40:40.And it is irreversible, unless we choose otherwise. There is a long

:40:41. > :40:44.opinion by Professor Sir Alan Dashwood, the leading EU

:40:45. > :40:50.constitutional lawyer in this country, it can be read on the

:40:51. > :40:53.Henderson Chambers website. I'm grateful for what my right

:40:54. > :40:58.honourable friend says given that he was a senior law officer in the

:40:59. > :41:02.government. I listen carefully to what the member for Beaconsfield has

:41:03. > :41:08.said, they could not have been more clear on this point, I've read the

:41:09. > :41:12.judgment by Lord Dashwood and the government 's own legal advice. They

:41:13. > :41:15.say it is legally binding and reversible. People who question it

:41:16. > :41:24.should look at the Danish protocol, that's been working well for 23

:41:25. > :41:31.years. Does the Prime Minister share my concerns and worries that after

:41:32. > :41:35.70 years of peace and prosperity, any nation begins to take it rather

:41:36. > :41:41.for granted, and take the institutions that created that peace

:41:42. > :41:48.and prosperity? I was born on the August weekend in London at the

:41:49. > :41:55.height of the Battle of Britain. My generation, and many people in this

:41:56. > :41:58.country with longer memories, note that peace and prosperity aren't

:41:59. > :42:03.guaranteed, unless you work together across Europe to maintain them day

:42:04. > :42:07.after day, month after month, year after year. I agree with the

:42:08. > :42:11.honourable gentleman, it is worth remembering why this came about in

:42:12. > :42:14.the first place. The appalling bloodshed on our continent. For

:42:15. > :42:21.people of my generation, very much postwar children, we should remember

:42:22. > :42:27.that and look afresh at the institutions of the EU, and try to

:42:28. > :42:30.make sure that this organisation works for this century, rather than

:42:31. > :42:34.the last century. That's part of what the agreement is about. I

:42:35. > :42:40.remember the meeting we once had at the Cloth Hall in Ypres, you cannot

:42:41. > :42:42.sit in that building without thinking of the slaughter that

:42:43. > :42:49.European countries have engaged in in the past. May I to salute my

:42:50. > :42:52.right honourable friend for honouring his commitment to the

:42:53. > :42:56.British people, to offer them a referendum? And extraordinary

:42:57. > :43:01.stamina over the last week or so, where we've been to join the recess.

:43:02. > :43:07.For me, this is not the fundamental reform we were promised. We've

:43:08. > :43:11.learned a lot about security in the last few weeks, would he not agree

:43:12. > :43:17.with me that the security of Europe is dependent on Nato, not the EU? It

:43:18. > :43:21.is Nato that is protecting us from further incursion by President

:43:22. > :43:28.Putin, and we do Nato no good by suggesting that somehow the EU has

:43:29. > :43:31.some competence in this area? I have huge respect for my right honourable

:43:32. > :43:38.friend, he served brilliantly in the last garment helping to strengthen

:43:39. > :43:44.defences, perhaps ten or 15 years ago, -- government. Whether it is

:43:45. > :43:48.our partnership with America, not the EU, considering defence and

:43:49. > :43:52.security in the run today, the way we fight terrorism yes it depends on

:43:53. > :43:59.our relationships and what we do through the EU. I see it daily

:44:00. > :44:04.through the exchange of information. The agreement we reached at this

:44:05. > :44:08.council, to make sure that there is a strong Nato mission, to try and

:44:09. > :44:12.help the situation between Greece and Turkey, it is a Nato mission

:44:13. > :44:16.backing up his point, but where was some of the conversation going on

:44:17. > :44:20.about it? Where were the Germans, British and French sitting together

:44:21. > :44:25.and working out what assets we could supply? How to get real power into

:44:26. > :44:29.it? It was done around the EU Council table. The fact is we need

:44:30. > :44:35.both to keep safe in the modern world, fight terrorism, criminality,

:44:36. > :44:39.stand up to evil around the world and use all organisations, not just

:44:40. > :44:43.some of them. The Prime Minister has played fast and loose with our

:44:44. > :44:51.cultural, social and economic future in Europe for a consider is -- for a

:44:52. > :44:54.series of concessions. Will the Prime Minister now guarantee that

:44:55. > :44:59.his government's case for remaining in the EU will stop appeasing them,

:45:00. > :45:07.and will instead focus on the many positives of the EU. Can he commit

:45:08. > :45:10.to ensuring that the public has sufficient information to make a

:45:11. > :45:15.positive and informed choice? We have certainly been whiting a

:45:16. > :45:22.positive campaign, and in that there is a series of documents, some were

:45:23. > :45:25.mandated by the other place, when they had a referendum bill, we have

:45:26. > :45:30.two set out rights and obligations of things you get out of, and

:45:31. > :45:35.obligations you have in the EU. We will be talking about the economic

:45:36. > :45:39.case. All of those issues, I would say to those interested in some

:45:40. > :45:43.cultural or educational arguments, come forward to. We need from voices

:45:44. > :45:47.from universities, they have a lot to say on this issue, they get a lot

:45:48. > :45:52.out of Europe. Cultural organisations should be speaking out

:45:53. > :45:58.as well. Nick Herbert. Anti-Mr Speaker, would my right honourable

:45:59. > :46:02.friend agree with me that when this country in our national interest

:46:03. > :46:06.makes an international agreement of any kind, it may involve a loss of

:46:07. > :46:13.sovereignty, that may be the case through any trade deal, through Nato

:46:14. > :46:16.rules, and on the single most important issue that this House of

:46:17. > :46:22.Commons could take, which is whether or not to engage in military action.

:46:23. > :46:26.We are treaty bound by Nato to go to the defence under article five of a

:46:27. > :46:31.country, a fellow member, under armed attack. That obliges us, in

:46:32. > :46:34.that sense, we've lost sovereignty. That is because we believe it is in

:46:35. > :46:40.the interests of the country to enter that agreement and has made us

:46:41. > :46:44.safer. If the claim of sovereignty and the loss of sovereignty were the

:46:45. > :46:47.trump card, would it not in fact be the case that all of those

:46:48. > :46:51.international agreements would need to be torn up? I think my right

:46:52. > :46:56.honourable friend makes an important point, if you're only determination

:46:57. > :47:00.was never to seek technical sovereignty committee would never

:47:01. > :47:08.join any organisations or do a trade ill, or be a member of the IMF World

:47:09. > :47:14.Bank -- trade deal. The question is what maximises power, influence and

:47:15. > :47:15.ability to get things done. As the Transport Secretary put brilliantly

:47:16. > :47:21.in the cabinet meeting, I would love to live in Utopia, but I expect the

:47:22. > :47:26.EU is that as well. You don't abolish the EU by leaving it, you

:47:27. > :47:30.simply cut yourself off from something, and therefore, possibly

:47:31. > :47:34.make yourself less powerful rather than more powerful. May I gently

:47:35. > :47:41.remind the house that people who wish to take part in the exchanges

:47:42. > :47:45.should have been here at the start, and remain throughout. People who

:47:46. > :47:49.have gone in and out of the chamber and may have come back in again

:47:50. > :47:53.should not then be standing. That's pretty much in breach of traditions

:47:54. > :47:59.of the house. We must be clear on that. Mr Ronnie Campbell. The main

:48:00. > :48:09.policy for me was a close political union. If this could be voted to

:48:10. > :48:17.upstate -- stay in the union on the 23rd, could we put it to a treaty,

:48:18. > :48:21.be written into a treaty? It is already an agreement and will

:48:22. > :48:27.shortly be deposited at the UN as an international law decision, and

:48:28. > :48:31.therefore it would already be, by then, legally binding and

:48:32. > :48:35.irreversible. When it comes to getting out of an ever closer union

:48:36. > :48:39.and redefining a closer union, I think it is so important it has to

:48:40. > :48:43.go into the treaties. The agreement here is when those treaties change

:48:44. > :48:49.they will be written into those treaties. If you like, there's a

:48:50. > :48:53.double lock on this. A vital point. John Baron? I suspect this is

:48:54. > :48:58.tinkering, it is not fundamental change, the red card is not a veto,

:48:59. > :49:06.it won't stop a majority of the EU in forcing unwanted taxes. Should

:49:07. > :49:12.the Prime Minister accept the possibility that the red card can be

:49:13. > :49:18.turned against us? It could not stop, or it would stop, rather, UK

:49:19. > :49:25.sponsored initiatives being blocked by the majority of the EU,

:49:26. > :49:29.initiatives that could be in our best interests, like access and

:49:30. > :49:34.further enhancement of the single market? Look, I don't overstate the

:49:35. > :49:39.red card, what it is is a new mechanism not to delay but properly

:49:40. > :49:43.block new initiatives available for National Polmont, should they want

:49:44. > :49:48.to avail themselves of it. For me, it's another thing that makes this

:49:49. > :49:54.organisation more democratically applicable to national Polmont is.

:49:55. > :50:00.On some occasions it may work against, I suppose it is

:50:01. > :50:03.accountability. The point is this organisation will be more democratic

:50:04. > :50:08.because of my decision rather than less.

:50:09. > :50:16.Mr Speaker, since the Prime Minister seems to be getting none from his

:50:17. > :50:23.own side, can I commend him from coming right to cancel a Michael

:50:24. > :50:27.version of freedom of movement. Can he assure the House that there'll be

:50:28. > :50:33.no application for the hundreds of thousands of UK citizens living in

:50:34. > :50:36.the EU for this deal? Of course if we stay in the European Union

:50:37. > :50:41.British people will continue to be able to live and work abroad as they

:50:42. > :50:45.do now. It is not for me to set up will happen to them in different

:50:46. > :50:50.circumstances. I think the league campaign will try and address that

:50:51. > :50:57.point. You will know with certainty what they get. In his statement the

:50:58. > :51:01.Prime Minister observed that leaving the EU might briefly make us feel

:51:02. > :51:05.more sovereign, does he not accept that the issue of parliamentary

:51:06. > :51:12.sovereignty will be the centre of that central one for parliamentary

:51:13. > :51:16.debate. So long as we're subject to the European Union we will not be

:51:17. > :51:21.truly sovereign and erode very little change last week in that

:51:22. > :51:25.respect. I think would change the last weekend in that respect is that

:51:26. > :51:31.because we're getting out of ever closing union we now know that we

:51:32. > :51:34.cannot be forced into folder public again good union against our will.

:51:35. > :51:39.On this issue of sovereignty I will repeat again, if you leave the EU

:51:40. > :51:43.you might feel more sovereign because you could pass this law or

:51:44. > :51:46.pass that law, but on the other hand if you still want to set into Europe

:51:47. > :51:51.you have to meet all the rules under which you have say. That is a

:51:52. > :51:59.diminution of sovereignty rather than increase of sovereignty. On the

:52:00. > :52:02.issue of sovereignty, has been reported in several news media

:52:03. > :52:06.organizations that the Prime Minister intends to unveil a British

:52:07. > :52:10.sovereignty bill in the next few days. Will he confirm that that is

:52:11. > :52:14.the case and if so will he tell us what provision he is going to make

:52:15. > :52:17.in that bill to recognise the principle of unlimited sovereignty

:52:18. > :52:25.in parliament and the distinctively English principal which has no

:52:26. > :52:35.counterpart to Scott a scattered -- constitutional law? We will build a

:52:36. > :52:40.2011 when we set out that our limited sovereign. Just as they can

:52:41. > :52:45.join the year they can join the -- Olevia. That is the good for the

:52:46. > :52:48.whole of the United Kingdom. We do have a sovereign parliament. I do

:52:49. > :52:55.think there are ways we can add to that. As other countries have done,

:52:56. > :53:01.I look for to bringing proposals forward in the coming day. On Friday

:53:02. > :53:10.two and a half thousand people packed the QE Center to see the goal

:53:11. > :53:19.launch national cross party leaf campaign, many speakers were there,

:53:20. > :53:23.including a renowned economic commentator, a senior trade

:53:24. > :53:29.unionist, and very respected Labour in Pete, the co-chairman of

:53:30. > :53:40.conservatives for Britain, for conservative MPs, and the leader of

:53:41. > :53:45.respect. In 2014, Bruce Davidson our excellent conservative leader in

:53:46. > :53:51.Scotland, linked arms with George Galloway in the national interest.

:53:52. > :53:54.Does the Prime Minister agree that Ruth Davidson was right and does he

:53:55. > :53:59.agree that sometimes you have to work with people you do not like?

:54:00. > :54:05.Everyone will have to make the choice about what platform they

:54:06. > :54:11.appear on and who they appear on those platforms with. I think the

:54:12. > :54:16.disadvantage of appearing on any platform with either Nigel The

:54:17. > :54:24.Mirage or George Galloway is what I consider who their friends are. ,

:54:25. > :54:32.this is going to be something everyone will have to think

:54:33. > :54:38.carefully about when they to appear. There has been a lot of talk about

:54:39. > :54:40.the City of London and big multilateral companies working here

:54:41. > :54:48.and investing in this country. The beating heart of our economy and the

:54:49. > :54:53.small and medium enterprise sector. As India's exports to EU countries.

:54:54. > :54:58.As the Prime Minister agree that it would be madness to slam the door in

:54:59. > :55:05.their face. I think the overwhelming majority of SNAs... There are many

:55:06. > :55:09.companies that are not exporters but are involved in the supply chain

:55:10. > :55:14.with companies that do export. This is a point that the business

:55:15. > :55:24.services organizations, banks accountants and lawyers make. I

:55:25. > :55:30.would like to also think my right noble friend the Prime Minister, and

:55:31. > :55:36.all routable members of this house who voted for us to have a

:55:37. > :55:43.referendum on our EU membership. Can you promise to say whether the remit

:55:44. > :55:45.he has reached alters the Lisbon Treaty at all? Obviously it does,

:55:46. > :55:54.would we change these treaties this'll be of the founding documents

:55:55. > :55:58.of the EU. In time the treaty changes will sit alongside the other

:55:59. > :56:02.treaties that have been produced in the past. Like him, I regret the

:56:03. > :56:09.fact that so many treaties were passed with so many Democratic

:56:10. > :56:18.accountability -- so little. A distant dream for many of us who

:56:19. > :56:26.used to argue this never got it. The Prime Minister has stated that

:56:27. > :56:35.people who vote to leave the EU do not love their country. I represent

:56:36. > :56:39.many veterans of the armed services who is cannot be questioned. What he

:56:40. > :56:45.Prime Minister apologise to the people? I absolutely did not say

:56:46. > :56:52.that. I said that I love my country and I think our country will be

:56:53. > :56:55.greater and more powerful but we remain a organizations through which

:56:56. > :56:58.we can project our power and influence and do great things in the

:56:59. > :57:03.world. I did not question the patriotism of anyone in our country.

:57:04. > :57:09.We're going to have to make a choice. I think part of Britain's

:57:10. > :57:16.greatness is not just the right we have this country, but we are not in

:57:17. > :57:20.doubt looking country. I'm very proud that we help during refugees,

:57:21. > :57:26.and help stabilise countries from which so many problems come. We do

:57:27. > :57:31.this because we are strong, but also because we are members of Nato, we

:57:32. > :57:37.are a permanent seat of the UN, and part of the EU. We should be proud

:57:38. > :57:47.of the world that we play in the world. -- role. If these

:57:48. > :57:50.negotiations did not succeed, and he would have no hesitation even

:57:51. > :57:56.recommending that we leave the European Union. Can he have in the

:57:57. > :58:00.library papers which cover contingency plans which would take

:58:01. > :58:04.place in that eventuality. What he confirm that in that circumstance

:58:05. > :58:09.exactly the same leap in the dark what have to be made by him as he is

:58:10. > :58:16.now vilified? What I would say to my Honorable friend and I have great

:58:17. > :58:22.respect for him because he is held his views for many years, and I

:58:23. > :58:26.would hope he will respect my views. In terms of the documentation we're

:58:27. > :58:28.going to be publishing something about the alternatives to

:58:29. > :58:33.demonstrate what we believe they are you demonstrate that we are thinking

:58:34. > :58:38.about what would need to happen with that eventuality to come about. In

:58:39. > :58:42.terms of what we achieved, I'm very happy to write to him with a list of

:58:43. > :58:47.things that we said in our manifesto. We achieve in this new

:58:48. > :58:50.renegotiation. Consequent to say that I'm going to take a different

:58:51. > :58:54.path from you, I'm going to make my own decision. Somehow we have not

:58:55. > :59:04.delivered the overt whelming On at the Prime Minister can tell

:59:05. > :59:10.the House whether he thinks rural communities and present would be

:59:11. > :59:14.better our worst thing in the EU. I represent rural communities, 400

:59:15. > :59:20.square miles of beautiful West Oxfordshire. There'll be a range of

:59:21. > :59:25.views in my constituency by no one I talked to many of those responsible

:59:26. > :59:27.for producing food and for looking after our local environment, that

:59:28. > :59:35.they see strong advantages of fermenting. -- of remaining. Though

:59:36. > :59:39.the parameters are agreed and negotiated a special status till,

:59:40. > :59:48.the actual demonstrations of sovereignty at his best? -- special

:59:49. > :59:52.status till. Safer and more economic prosperous and a manifest itself in

:59:53. > :59:55.many aspects of the deal, but also the way in which we behave as a

:59:56. > :00:04.nation state within the European Union and the future. What I would

:00:05. > :00:09.say is I think it demonstrates that while this organisation is imperfect

:00:10. > :00:13.and sometimes campy and flexible, they did show flexibility. One

:00:14. > :00:18.country came along with a manifest in place renegotiate its position

:00:19. > :00:22.with a set of changes and by large we have achieved them. I think that

:00:23. > :00:25.a sign that this organisation can be flexible IP that is incredibly

:00:26. > :00:29.important. If he did not achieve any of this, I would really have deep

:00:30. > :00:35.questions about whether the stay in an organisation like this. But they

:00:36. > :00:41.demonstrate it looks ability. -- demonstrated flexibility. I'm proud

:00:42. > :00:47.of Northern Ireland in his place in the world as a global trader. And I

:00:48. > :00:50.know we benefit a great deal from the EU at the moment. With a mind

:00:51. > :00:56.that promised or made it clear what the benefits are to us on our

:00:57. > :01:00.borders, our farmers, are fishermen, and all the people there that really

:01:01. > :01:07.relied on international trade? I look forward to coming there to make

:01:08. > :01:13.a point. -- those point. We look at the sad that they have been given in

:01:14. > :01:19.terms of final grants, -- Arlen that they have. If you look at what we

:01:20. > :01:24.have reformed heredity, agricultural policies, more to be done. I think

:01:25. > :01:27.money goes into another I lived through those programmes and I'm

:01:28. > :01:35.happy to come and talk about all those things in the province.

:01:36. > :01:40.Will actually be changed to incorporate our changes and perhaps

:01:41. > :01:46.to allow greater integration of the eurozone, required for the

:01:47. > :01:53.referendum in the UK or not? That require a future referendum. The

:01:54. > :01:58.eurozone members were to bring forward treaty changes to change the

:01:59. > :02:01.nature of the eurozone, but without effecting any weight competences

:02:02. > :02:07.here in Britain. Then I suspect we'll be up to get our changes on

:02:08. > :02:11.ever closer union, on the governments surrounding the

:02:12. > :02:17.eurozone, and to the treaty. Whether it require never referendum depends

:02:18. > :02:21.on whether it goes to Brussels. If the answer is yes, you have to have

:02:22. > :02:27.a referendum. If the answer is no, you don't. And as statement, the

:02:28. > :02:33.Prime Minister said responsibility for supervising the stability of the

:02:34. > :02:39.UK will always remain in the hands of the Bank of England. -- in his

:02:40. > :02:43.statement. But we already share that responsibility. With the European

:02:44. > :02:49.banking authorities and we already signed up to the single will book

:02:50. > :02:54.about RT. Out of the Prime Minister statement compatible with the view

:02:55. > :02:59.of Mr, the head of the European banking authority, who says that the

:03:00. > :03:04.institution must be the dominant player in Santa Cruz, particularly

:03:05. > :03:11.in Britain wishes to keep the town and state within a single European

:03:12. > :03:15.financial regulation. The assets of this question requires something

:03:16. > :03:22.like 35 hours of negotiation. -- the answer to this question. Of course

:03:23. > :03:27.you have the backing union arrangement. And for the kill zone

:03:28. > :03:31.countries, they need to have their banks properly scrutinised and

:03:32. > :03:36.regulated at a guilty level. We have our own currency, our on banking

:03:37. > :03:39.supervision arrangement. It is hard to supervise a complex and larger

:03:40. > :03:42.economy like Britain, with one of the largest financial centres

:03:43. > :03:46.anywhere and well, it is not just banks that are systemically

:03:47. > :03:49.important, it is also other financial institutions. Central

:03:50. > :03:53.counterparties, and why this is important is because at the end of

:03:54. > :03:56.the day, we need to make sure that whatever is the eurozone does, we

:03:57. > :04:03.are protected in terms of the Bank of England playing the role of being

:04:04. > :04:06.to intervene to resolve and to supervise those important

:04:07. > :04:09.institution. That's what paragraph four is it about. Although that

:04:10. > :04:18.sounds very technical, it is fantastically important because it

:04:19. > :04:22.Britain -- it Britain, it would have to and a zero best organisation

:04:23. > :04:26.where the eurozone is a large currency, and we can have variables,

:04:27. > :04:30.there would be a case for saying long-term, this is a single currency

:04:31. > :04:35.only organisation independently. This was crucial to get that

:04:36. > :04:38.settled, technical, but at and fundamentally important what we can

:04:39. > :04:45.get fair treatment inside this organisation. The answer is yes, we

:04:46. > :04:50.can. And it's great exercise of democracy, it is not what we say of

:04:51. > :04:53.the house, but what are constituents decide. My constituency but many

:04:54. > :04:58.will be interested in the things that affect them. The economic

:04:59. > :05:02.production of the jobs of the Bar-B-Q can bring in a single trade,

:05:03. > :05:07.so they don't want the euro, they don't want the euro superstate and

:05:08. > :05:11.something for nothing and welfare. The diamonds are confirmed to my

:05:12. > :05:19.constituents in a bubble the country that what he is negotiated. -- can

:05:20. > :05:23.Minister confirm. I don't know if I make it too one with a cold, but I

:05:24. > :05:28.hope to make it to many parts of our country to make the point. --

:05:29. > :05:32.Wimbledon. We have not solved all the problems, but we have

:05:33. > :05:36.fundamentally addressed the major that Britain had. Too much original

:05:37. > :05:40.currency club, too much regulation, too much of a politically

:05:41. > :05:45.convenient, and not national determination of free moment abuse

:05:46. > :05:47.and welfare. I think those four pinnacles of the heart of the

:05:48. > :05:57.problems we've had with this organisation. -- principles.

:05:58. > :06:04.The diamonds are going to welcome the support that he has received to

:06:05. > :06:07.date on the surprise element surviving area of the Deputy First

:06:08. > :06:14.Minister of Northern Ireland? -- if the Minister. Or is he going to

:06:15. > :06:19.encourage the people of the stay in tune with his Secretary of State for

:06:20. > :06:23.Northern Ireland, who has indicated their strong click in tune with the

:06:24. > :06:27.people of Northern Ireland that they should leave, and if he is not going

:06:28. > :06:30.to support the Secretary of State, will he didn't be following the

:06:31. > :06:35.advice of the Deputy First Minister that the Secretary of State said the

:06:36. > :06:42.bond. Will he not support the Secretary of State? The secondary

:06:43. > :06:47.state of an excellent job. She is exercising her decision for Britain

:06:48. > :06:51.to leave the queue. That's Secretary of State. I think the key thing is

:06:52. > :06:54.that an aromatic and other Alice up their mind, based on the evidence. I

:06:55. > :07:02.look forward to forward to coming to try and help persuade them to remain

:07:03. > :07:07.in a reformed EU. The Prime Minister accept that the thousands of Sun

:07:08. > :07:11.Microsystems, the hundreds of thousands of mothers, and methods

:07:12. > :07:16.across the UK to work in the financial services will be glad that

:07:17. > :07:19.he at least argues that jobs in as the Leader of the Opposition appears

:07:20. > :07:25.to the best some? And we recognise that the covenant package is an

:07:26. > :07:27.important one for strategic British interests, and therefore the

:07:28. > :07:31.pragmatic investors businesslike thing is not to walk away from a

:07:32. > :07:43.market, but to stay in it, and make it work better? We should recognise,

:07:44. > :07:46.something like an making jobs in finance, I think, so making jobs in

:07:47. > :07:51.mid-December become. The key point is because we are in the single

:07:52. > :07:55.market, we have the right to passport to have a bag or financial

:07:56. > :07:58.services company here Britain back and trade throughout the EU. The

:07:59. > :08:03.dissent of market and you lose that right. But within have to happen is

:08:04. > :08:08.companies based in the UK would have to move at least some of the jobs to

:08:09. > :08:17.admit European country. That is why HSBC said they would lose 8000 jobs.

:08:18. > :08:21.This is real jobs. -- 1000 jobs. Need to explain this, it is

:08:22. > :08:24.compensated, but there is no doubt in my mind that living the single

:08:25. > :08:31.market financial services would mean less jobs Britain. It was the

:08:32. > :08:35.assistant ahead of time as still used the word evolved in connection

:08:36. > :08:51.-- devolved in connection. Clever I personally will be voting

:08:52. > :08:55.to stay in the EU, and I will have the Prime Minister to give it to

:08:56. > :09:00.others. The diamonds are assets in a good deal, why the struggling to

:09:01. > :09:03.convince somebody in his own party? -- the Minister. Some people are

:09:04. > :09:12.long-standing feuds about wanting to leave the EU. The point I was making

:09:13. > :09:17.about starting the worst percentage, no doubt that but for some people

:09:18. > :09:17.seem to be suggesting. I just about money, but

:09:18. > :09:23.the process of leaving, you'll get offered a better that the state. I

:09:24. > :09:27.think that is not the case. You could think about it like this,

:09:28. > :09:34.you're not just divorcing one person, you are divorcing 27,

:09:35. > :09:41.potentially unhappy partners. I give to no one in my belief, that I can

:09:42. > :09:46.bring people back, I have seen Buffalo wedding Set plays. -- I'd

:09:47. > :09:55.kill to know. Resulting in another word. -- multiple weddings. May I

:09:56. > :10:01.join other members in congratulating the Prime Minister for this work in

:10:02. > :10:08.Brussels last week. I do agree that this reform does produce a

:10:09. > :10:14.phenomenal chains and British accumulations -- phenomenal chains

:10:15. > :10:17.and British, EU lesson. It does a lot of young people would jet at the

:10:18. > :10:24.possibility of entering into a new turmoil within the economy. -- young

:10:25. > :10:29.people with the dread. We agreed that it is vital to Britain 's

:10:30. > :10:38.economy that will remain inside the European Union? -- we were made.

:10:39. > :10:40.They have a strong question this campaign would have been through

:10:41. > :10:49.difficult times. The time of uncertainty, why had extra risk? --

:10:50. > :10:52.in a time of uncertainty. And Britain's strategic interest to be

:10:53. > :10:57.pretty intimately engaged in the doings of a continent that has a

:10:58. > :10:59.gram 20th-century history, and whose alchemy have cost millions of

:11:00. > :11:05.Britons to lose their lives. That the best way of staying pretty

:11:06. > :11:10.engaged is to remain a member of the European Union. I agree with that.

:11:11. > :11:15.If we leave the EU, and do not cease to exist, but was seized element

:11:16. > :11:23.contains that an impact on our lives. And on our world. It is best

:11:24. > :11:27.to try to offer from within. Sure questions are not required. Were

:11:28. > :11:36.having answers, but we need short answer. Can we ensure that the

:11:37. > :11:42.information in the campaign is actually correct? As he was a go at

:11:43. > :11:50.letter and the telegraph and the male appeared in criticising the

:11:51. > :11:54.Prime Minister. -- a week ago. The Prime Minister, no one ever heard of

:11:55. > :11:59.that person. Can we please ask that information before by both sides is

:12:00. > :12:04.fair, accurate, Achterberg sold the public can decide on further

:12:05. > :12:14.evidence? Dass and correct. We're producing a number of documents them

:12:15. > :12:17.as -- information is accurate. Can ask the premises to read at a rate

:12:18. > :12:21.was at the heart of this matter, if the UK left the EU, who was almost

:12:22. > :12:25.having to continue to implement the vast majority of the EU roles and

:12:26. > :12:27.write what is at the heart of this matter, if the UK left the EU, who

:12:28. > :12:30.was almost having to continue to implement the vast majority of the

:12:31. > :12:32.EU roles in relation everyone to access the same terms of the single

:12:33. > :12:35.market. The only difference would be doing a lot of good essay about

:12:36. > :12:41.terms sappy love I had a lot of conversations within a original

:12:42. > :12:47.about this. If you do, you implement the directives but have no say over

:12:48. > :12:52.how they are put in place. For the first time in my lifetime, people

:12:53. > :13:06.and words are what I have a jingle and say on this. That's a legitimate

:13:07. > :13:11.say on this. In 2010 manifesto, we said we would bring and eight UK

:13:12. > :13:14.sovereignty bill to assert sovereignty of our country and make

:13:15. > :13:18.sure it was this Parliament that take. We agree that sovereignty is

:13:19. > :13:25.something that can be asserted by this house and not something for us

:13:26. > :13:31.to argue about? Would introduce, the sovereignty clause in the 2011

:13:32. > :13:37.referendum. -- we did introduce. When looking to add to it in the

:13:38. > :13:42.proposals. That's what I look into. Many mike assiduous work and the

:13:43. > :13:49.Lutton, cannot buckle with the said today. That's many of my

:13:50. > :13:55.constituents. Accessed the largest single market, given that, and

:13:56. > :13:58.offered appointments are a plus and a parliament opportunity to campaign

:13:59. > :14:02.in my constituency on this issue? Cannot also given that there are

:14:03. > :14:06.those that would love to get their hands on Britain's services, and the

:14:07. > :14:10.Maryland and has given of his day job to think about is that Shaw,

:14:11. > :14:14.connect the Prime Minister and very clear message that London is

:14:15. > :14:22.stronger in Europe? -- the Mayor of London. I would be delighted to come

:14:23. > :14:32.to his constituency. I think he is right, when it comes to the Mac DK's

:14:33. > :14:44.membership is of strategic importance to the financial and

:14:45. > :14:48.related services. -- UK's. These organisations covering finance,

:14:49. > :14:51.insurance, manufacturing, engineering, they are all negative

:14:52. > :15:01.views clear enough that we should listen to them. -- they are all

:15:02. > :15:04.making their views. Investment in the country has gone up to the West

:15:05. > :15:10.Midlands is gone. But he agree with me that full access to the single

:15:11. > :15:14.market, which focuses on jobs and growth, is critical to the security

:15:15. > :15:19.a jobs and people in my constituency and across the West Midlands? We

:15:20. > :15:23.have seen an industrial renaissance of the West Midlands with more

:15:24. > :15:27.people in part of the crowd and the automotive sector. The centres are

:15:28. > :15:32.part of complex supply chains right across Europe. He'll be huge

:15:33. > :15:39.dislocation if we were to leave. -- and it would be a huge. Access to

:15:40. > :15:42.labor, protection of workers rights, protection of human rights in some

:15:43. > :15:49.of the benefits to our membership of the EU. Beneficial to work and

:15:50. > :15:57.businesses. It must perturb arm and said that his Justice Secretary, and

:15:58. > :15:59.employment Minister, how will he assure that those positive reasons

:16:00. > :16:06.for remaining are the forefront of campaign? Grabbed a wooden issue

:16:07. > :16:13.that has caused the and differences with parties right across his house.

:16:14. > :16:18.-- we are are dealing with issues. With CC, is 23 people sitting around

:16:19. > :16:22.the Cabinet table, convinced that we should be better off within the EU,

:16:23. > :16:26.and said that attacking a different view. I doubt that we should be

:16:27. > :16:31.concerned. This is a referendum, the people's choice, not the

:16:32. > :16:38.politician's towards. Does he agree that now is the time? We are no

:16:39. > :16:45.longer an imperial power? Able to demand what we want to get of living

:16:46. > :16:51.fragile and volatile world and all senses of those terms. It is not a

:16:52. > :16:54.membership above the EU, together with the United Nations, with essay

:16:55. > :17:00.on the security council, our membership of Nato, I do platform

:17:01. > :17:06.for us to promote Britain here and abroad and that is why we should be

:17:07. > :17:10.staying? Membership of these organisations helps us to get things

:17:11. > :17:17.done for our people, country, and also made progress on the issues we

:17:18. > :17:20.care about. -- make progress. I think the prominence it deserves

:17:21. > :17:27.credit for the deal. -- Prime Minister. The campaign the honour

:17:28. > :17:35.was a state where they would look like. I think it is, not him --

:17:36. > :17:41.incumbent on him to tell us what a lead balloon flight. Any say that

:17:42. > :17:44.can be saved what will it believes will look like and what state will

:17:45. > :17:46.look like and what stable of my? We will do is have a government setting

:17:47. > :17:53.out what we believe the often bizarre. There is the Swiss model

:17:54. > :17:57.that took nine years to negotiate. There's a Norwegian model, the WT of

:17:58. > :18:04.option we could face tariffs every time you try to sell the EU. The

:18:05. > :18:08.Canada free trade deal, did get. But there it not cover all services, so

:18:09. > :18:12.you could be disadvantaged. We need to need to go to detail in the

:18:13. > :18:19.cities these input accurate, information and place so that people

:18:20. > :18:23.can see what is on offer. Other comments and agree that critical to

:18:24. > :18:27.the success of his campaign is going to be his ability to convince people

:18:28. > :18:32.that by giving us some sovereignty in prison, we have gained

:18:33. > :18:35.sovereignty interrupt the game authority in general, and can he

:18:36. > :18:43.convince the country that he'll be able to do that? This will be the

:18:44. > :18:47.challenge of the comment once. -- coming months. I have no self is

:18:48. > :18:54.interested that. I will tell as see it. What I have learned of the six

:18:55. > :18:57.years of things Prime Minister, this organisation is imperfect and can

:18:58. > :19:03.sometimes be frustrating. But we are better off in. I believe that and

:19:04. > :19:07.I'll take that message the country. -- across the country. People in

:19:08. > :19:12.Scotland are entitled to hear the case for remaining in the EU. But he

:19:13. > :19:14.made the decision on of the parent of the arguments full. The

:19:15. > :19:20.pharmacist will today about the importance of taking express will of

:19:21. > :19:23.the people. That's the prominence there. Would take full account of

:19:24. > :19:26.the view of the bread -- status people and ensure that we both

:19:27. > :19:34.remain, we are not removed from the EU? I don't think I shall afford to

:19:35. > :19:42.that in this message to campaigning in Scotland. I enjoy doing that on

:19:43. > :19:46.the referendum. -- enjoy. I look forward to making this argument

:19:47. > :19:53.again, that would have been altogether. As we are better off. It

:19:54. > :20:03.is able in united kingdom decision. -- it is one. The opposite of always

:20:04. > :20:10.had the domination for the time. If he came back as ever abjured, -- and

:20:11. > :20:13.perhaps a cure, the biggest questions I have a my constituents

:20:14. > :20:19.are what are the positive and wish you would the deal -- voted on. It

:20:20. > :20:23.houses has a cicada, the military and also make the point that

:20:24. > :20:30.sovereignty cannot be more sovereign than 46 million people don't have

:20:31. > :20:36.their say. That which is not talk about the potential benefits of free

:20:37. > :20:43.trade, but there are some very simple practical benefits. -- not

:20:44. > :20:46.only talk about. Because open skies, prices are going on holidays and

:20:47. > :20:52.taking a flight anywhere a girl will come down something like 40%. And

:20:53. > :20:55.when you travel, you'll be able to access to digital content on

:20:56. > :21:02.Arafat's fast they can watch whatever you want. Wherever you are

:21:03. > :21:12.God. -- so you can watch whatever. That's wherever you are. Many of my

:21:13. > :21:16.constituents are somewhat too for their hugely concerned about the

:21:17. > :21:20.future the cat. Can the prominence it say what they believe the UK

:21:21. > :21:24.still in the street by the brunt brighter future if we were managing

:21:25. > :21:31.your abortive relief? -- UK steel industry.

:21:32. > :21:38.The point I would make is however difficult it is, they would have a

:21:39. > :21:42.better chance of dealing with Chinese overcapacity and dumping and

:21:43. > :21:49.all of it if we work as the biggest market in the world, to 500 million

:21:50. > :21:53.people. We can get some things done, the fifth-largest economy, but it is

:21:54. > :22:01.part of a 500 Megan, I think we can get more action. -- 500 million. A

:22:02. > :22:05.number of unemployed, somatic constituents has fallen by 80%. Will

:22:06. > :22:16.the Prime Minister agree with me to leave the EU now the so much

:22:17. > :22:20.uncertainty would risk a reversal? I think there is a simple point here,

:22:21. > :22:23.which is we live in uncertain times, we make good progress on the

:22:24. > :22:28.economy, and we should try to take the risk of weight from the economic

:22:29. > :22:38.performance, and clearly tended our status with the risk. -- changing

:22:39. > :22:40.our status. We have been enriched by freedom moment with corporations,

:22:41. > :22:46.and will remain relevant in global because of that seed we have in the

:22:47. > :22:50.European Union. All of which -- because of the seed. With that in

:22:51. > :22:54.mind, will the prominence or for some punch into a positive fight to

:22:55. > :22:57.remain incurable because when a front iPhone it it it was this

:22:58. > :22:59.conservative Prime Minister who listed to the Scottish national

:23:00. > :23:08.party who say Britain from his cell phone? -- say Britain from itself.

:23:09. > :23:12.There is for the part of his campaign and it will be positive.

:23:13. > :23:16.But I make no apologies that and making a positive campaign about

:23:17. > :23:19.jobs, and about business, and competitiveness, let's also examined

:23:20. > :23:27.the alternative. There's nothing wrong with doing that. As a member

:23:28. > :23:33.of the Neto, I has sent Nato operations around the world. That

:23:34. > :23:40.has. Does he agree with me that it's actually the 28 member nations of

:23:41. > :23:44.Nato, including non-EQ countries, like Norway, Turkey, Iceland, the

:23:45. > :23:50.United States and Canada, that is delivering our international

:23:51. > :23:57.security, but not an EU army? We don't want a EU army, and this

:23:58. > :23:59.document could really says that clearly said that our national

:24:00. > :24:05.security is a reserved matter for nation states. I think when you look

:24:06. > :24:10.in detail for what both Nato and the EU is done off the coast of Somalia,

:24:11. > :24:14.what is happening in the Mediterranean, what is Nato and the

:24:15. > :24:17.ease, the EU and the south, you need to be about these organisations.

:24:18. > :24:30.That should be involved of these. The Cantonment membership of the EU

:24:31. > :24:41.has been a force for good for trade, jobs, investments and international

:24:42. > :24:44.cooperation. -- the UK. The promoter prosperity and kept up at the

:24:45. > :24:50.ravages of two world wars. With a common set agreed that those who are

:24:51. > :24:52.campaigning so aggressively, to reject his negotiations, took a

:24:53. > :24:57.prison blues in the modern world are not only on the wrong side of the

:24:58. > :25:05.big argument on history as well? -- to cut Britain loose and the modern.

:25:06. > :25:12.I think there is a showcase for saying when we try to cut ourselves

:25:13. > :25:15.off, it ended in disaster and the need to re-engage at the end of

:25:16. > :25:19.that. We should always work to get our engagements fright wigs this

:25:20. > :25:26.deal is all about. -- engagement right which this deal. I'm standing

:25:27. > :25:33.at the side of the Prime Minister of this one. The promise as a hosted by

:25:34. > :25:37.me and my people and Morgan. In my constituency, we have the port which

:25:38. > :25:42.is 10% of our GDP going through it. Both from Northern Ireland. Also we

:25:43. > :25:46.have the ESP power stations, two nuclear stations. Which is the

:25:47. > :25:50.French government's sponsor. I want to see jobs lost in my constituency,

:25:51. > :25:54.especially as it has the lowest unemployment rate at this moment in

:25:55. > :26:01.time seen in generations. Would my friend agree with me on that

:26:02. > :26:05.synopsis? I agree that in the end, this is about jobs and livelihoods

:26:06. > :26:07.and I think that he stands up very well for his constituents. I

:26:08. > :26:13.remember visiting where we were looking at the Lake Road and I

:26:14. > :26:20.haven't ever everything into one fabric. I just hope it survives. --

:26:21. > :26:26.hammered into the bridge. Following his indication, that a series of

:26:27. > :26:31.documents would be published in relation to the foreign proposals,

:26:32. > :26:36.and on the 3rd of February, the Prime Minister referred to the

:26:37. > :26:43.impact of the free movement of people within Ireland and the

:26:44. > :26:48.removal of that street moment. If in the event of an exit, can the Prime

:26:49. > :26:54.Minister confirm Windows documents will be made available, so that we

:26:55. > :26:59.will be able to have a full and robust discussion, as people who

:27:00. > :27:04.want to remain within the European Union? I did the days of Windows

:27:05. > :27:12.will be published, but I will try to make sure -- it does not have the

:27:13. > :27:16.dates. Within the border another island, and the issue of the

:27:17. > :27:23.movement of people that can be triggered by that. -- Northern

:27:24. > :27:27.Ireland. One word that seems to come up around the report of the summit

:27:28. > :27:31.was contagion, as of other say following his lead with be a bad

:27:32. > :27:33.thing. But he agree that contagion could be a good thing and something

:27:34. > :27:40.that we should encourage? The 1-size-fits-all Europe is now a

:27:41. > :27:48.thing of the past. And we have now set a league which has several

:27:49. > :27:51.forms. -- Stanley. You're one of her work if we tried to make everybody

:27:52. > :28:00.1-size-fits-all as a country like Britain raises concerns and I'm glad

:28:01. > :28:07.to have been. -- to happen. Among the UK citizens living in the

:28:08. > :28:11.European Union, approximately 30,000 of them are claiming benefits in

:28:12. > :28:19.those European countries. How the Prime Minister package affect them?

:28:20. > :28:22.But we have negotiated is a welfare mechanism that the European

:28:23. > :28:26.Commission have said applies to present. So now we're able to pull

:28:27. > :28:30.this emergency brake and restrict benefits for seven years. It is up

:28:31. > :28:34.by other countries to determine whether they qualify and whether

:28:35. > :28:38.they are able to do that, but I'm in no doubt applies right-of-way in the

:28:39. > :28:46.UK, which is what I was determined to secure. The Prime Minister will

:28:47. > :28:51.be aware that we have partners and militarize outside of the EU. That

:28:52. > :28:54.heavily represented -- representations... As to whether

:28:55. > :29:00.they see better inside the EU or outside the. I all the conversations

:29:01. > :29:02.I've had, from our partners, our neighbours, countries that look to

:29:03. > :29:07.us as friends around the world, and I've been quite surprised by how

:29:08. > :29:11.unanimous and passionate to have been. Any sense that for instance,

:29:12. > :29:14.some of the countries of the Commonwealth might want Britain to

:29:15. > :29:19.step back from Europe and form some sort of new relationship with them,

:29:20. > :29:23.I would totally disabuse people of that idea. The Prime Minister of New

:29:24. > :29:29.Zealand, Canada, Australia, they cannot be more clear, the president

:29:30. > :29:33.of America about to give Britain should stay in a reformed European

:29:34. > :29:45.Union. In that way, they should looking out for them to sign

:29:46. > :29:50.Europe will continue to boost our commitments to watch military in

:29:51. > :29:56.case we have seen the last years. Last year and last summer there were

:29:57. > :30:00.attempts made to link those cases to membership of the European Union.

:30:01. > :30:05.Can the Prime Minister give us an assurance that the both of what

:30:06. > :30:11.happens this will be based solely on humanitarian necessity and as to how

:30:12. > :30:16.it will impact? Of course will do what is right. But I think it is

:30:17. > :30:21.important to address in the context of our membership this issue of

:30:22. > :30:27.migration. I make a number of points. One is that obviously

:30:28. > :30:30.outside Schengen and so that people coming to the EU don't have

:30:31. > :30:34.automatic right to come to Britain. Second I make the point that we are

:30:35. > :30:38.doing a very responsible thing in taking refugees direct from the

:30:39. > :30:42.region. Third we are working with our European partners to secure the

:30:43. > :30:47.external border. At the end of the day whether we are in the EU or out

:30:48. > :30:51.of the EU, we are affected by this problem in Europe. So we should be

:30:52. > :30:53.working with our partners to make sure that they can better control

:30:54. > :31:01.and stop in some cases the flow of and stop in some cases the flow of

:31:02. > :31:04.people to Europe. Some argue that we will be able to forge a better deals

:31:05. > :31:09.across the world by leaving the European Union. In the three years I

:31:10. > :31:13.have been a trade and what, I have not yet met a single representation

:31:14. > :31:17.that believed our trade investment would be better if we left the EU.

:31:18. > :31:21.Does my right honourable friend. LAUGHTER. Does my right honourable

:31:22. > :31:23.friend agree with me that the referendum is not about whether we

:31:24. > :31:30.should do business rest of the world, but that we

:31:31. > :31:37.should get the treat free trade agreement and always prioritise the

:31:38. > :31:42.EU. We are expanding our trade inside easy Asia. We have doubled

:31:43. > :31:45.our trade with China. I am very shocked that he used that countries

:31:46. > :31:49.have not said that they want to get out of a trade deal with us. They

:31:50. > :32:01.are saying to state within the EU and that the EU will be bigger and

:32:02. > :32:06.better. The Prime Minister maximises the case. I am trying to confirm

:32:07. > :32:10.rumours that he has been exploiting the situation to his own self

:32:11. > :32:13.interests. He has opened a private book on his successor. Can the Prime

:32:14. > :32:18.Minister confirm this can he give up the claim of where the money is

:32:19. > :32:25.flowing and will he guaranteed to extend the syndicate to the rest of

:32:26. > :32:29.us. LAUGHTER. My father was an gambler and I remember sitting on a

:32:30. > :32:33.Saturday watching him betting on race after race. While I enjoyed all

:32:34. > :32:38.that pulled, I have always tried to stay away from it myself. So I am

:32:39. > :32:41.not writing a book. All I know is that I will do the right thing for

:32:42. > :32:51.this country and the right thing for this country is to read -- remained

:32:52. > :32:56.in the reformed EU. Agreement. The mood is that today they could cut

:32:57. > :33:01.Britain's credit rating. This and let the UK manages to negotiate new

:33:02. > :33:06.trade arrangement with the EU, that deserves at least some of the trade

:33:07. > :33:11.benefits, the exports will suffer and go on to uncertainty in negative

:33:12. > :33:15.investment. Is that a fear or warning from the world. There are

:33:16. > :33:21.important economic consequences that we do need to so people can see all

:33:22. > :33:25.the potential downsides and what they are. This is what I think it's

:33:26. > :33:30.a leap in the dark. How long it would take to put trade deals in

:33:31. > :33:34.place and how damaging that could be. It would be irresponsible to put

:33:35. > :33:46.in front of the British people with the consequences of the changes are.

:33:47. > :33:56.Hear, hear!. Mr Speaker that disbursements of car payments.

:33:57. > :33:59.Convergence of less in the EU pervaded the UK which is actually

:34:00. > :34:09.based on the payments that the farmers received. That would make it

:34:10. > :34:11.much easier for farmers. I'll look carefully at what the Honorable

:34:12. > :34:17.general is that. My memory of the camp deal and the finance deal are

:34:18. > :34:19.the consequences whether we gave a huge amount of leeway to the

:34:20. > :34:26.devolved administrations to determine the right way to spend the

:34:27. > :34:29.money and actually farmers benefit from the way this is done. But I

:34:30. > :34:38.will look very carefully at the point he makes. Speaking I think the

:34:39. > :34:42.Prime Minister for all his for all his work on behalf of our country

:34:43. > :34:46.over the last months and years. Exports to China to Germany from the

:34:47. > :34:50.UK as shown in significant increases. Does not this showed that

:34:51. > :34:57.the opportunities for trade outside the EU are not what some would a

:34:58. > :35:01.constraint by membership of the EU. You don't is that your trade with

:35:02. > :35:10.China by doing listed with the EU. He's absolutely right. Last year

:35:11. > :35:13.every single colleague on this side of the House stood successfully

:35:14. > :35:19.under the leadership of my right honourable friend the one niche and

:35:20. > :35:23.conservative team. Would my right honourable friend agree with me that

:35:24. > :35:27.what ever that use of members on this side of the House, and for that

:35:28. > :35:34.matter I fully support the Prime Minister, what about the abuse and

:35:35. > :35:37.the outcome of the European union referendum, we must unify once again

:35:38. > :35:42.as a party to ensure that you ever our path into the 2020 election does

:35:43. > :35:47.not allow accidentally Jeremy Quarterman and his Labour

:35:48. > :35:51.colleagues. I agree this is always going to be a difficult process went

:35:52. > :35:53.in the Labour Party as well as in the Conservative Party there are

:35:54. > :35:58.people on both sides of the debate. I think this is such a big question

:35:59. > :36:01.and questions that will be answered ultimately by people rather than

:36:02. > :36:04.politicians. We should all be big enough to have an honest but open

:36:05. > :36:15.and polite disagreement and then come back together afterwards. I

:36:16. > :36:20.take the Prime Minister back to an election commitment in 2014 when he

:36:21. > :36:22.and I along with thousands of conservative activists campaigned on

:36:23. > :36:28.a promise to restore control of our borders. The Prime Minister says in

:36:29. > :36:31.that year I will go to Brussels and I will not take no for an answer.

:36:32. > :36:36.When it comes to free movement I will get what Britain needs. What

:36:37. > :36:39.changed last week was like what changed last week is that we are

:36:40. > :36:46.reforming to make sure that we can keep our fraudsters criminals and

:36:47. > :36:50.those peddling sham marriages, make sure we can apply British rules to

:36:51. > :36:56.foreign nationals to European citizens as well. The secretary

:36:57. > :37:01.negotiated incredibly hard knowing this was the one moment we had the

:37:02. > :37:05.ability to make these changes and reversed European court judgements

:37:06. > :37:13.in order that we do reform free movement. This is that what we have

:37:14. > :37:18.done. I thank my Honorable friend for the referendum first of all. He

:37:19. > :37:21.and I fundamentally disagree as he notes. My concerns for immigration

:37:22. > :37:32.which he said he would contain, we have a net migration of about 1000

:37:33. > :37:37.40,000 at the moment. Every year that is the size of a small city in

:37:38. > :37:42.this country. Surely that is unsustainable and what his position

:37:43. > :37:47.is and will not prevent that from happening. Where I agree with my

:37:48. > :37:50.Honorable friend is that we have to do more to control immigration. We

:37:51. > :37:55.look at the net migration in the UK, it is made up of half and half

:37:56. > :37:59.roughly. Half outside the EU which shows us what we need to do to shut

:38:00. > :38:04.down the bogus colleges to make sure that people are coming unfairly.

:38:05. > :38:07.Would end the EU the most we can do is to withdraw the artificial draw

:38:08. > :38:13.of additional welfare payments. The fact that people can get ?10,000 in

:38:14. > :38:17.the first year they come, surely that is an important determination.

:38:18. > :38:20.I am convinced of the convex measures we can get immigration down

:38:21. > :38:25.and do it while we're waiting is member the European Union. During

:38:26. > :38:28.the general election it was reported that the Prime Minister had

:38:29. > :38:34.expressed some concern about the coverage of the BBC in the election

:38:35. > :38:38.and his impartiality. What assurances can the Prime Minister

:38:39. > :38:45.give me so I can relate that to my constituents that BBC won't abuse

:38:46. > :38:49.its position against? LAUGHTER Politicians complaining about the

:38:50. > :38:52.BBC is a pretty common activity. I remember the former First Minister

:38:53. > :38:59.of Scotland getting quite heated about this issue. Every media

:39:00. > :39:03.organisation is under obligation. Sorry let me restate that. That is

:39:04. > :39:10.not true the newspapers. Every regulated television business is

:39:11. > :39:19.under duty of impartiality. But I'm sure that they will carry that out.

:39:20. > :39:22.I think the Prime Minister and all colleagues and all 103 backbenchers

:39:23. > :39:30.who took part in this important exchange. Before we proceed, I will

:39:31. > :39:38.of course take points of order. Thank you Mr Speaker. I made the

:39:39. > :39:44.office is aware of my attentions. Mr Speaker last week after much delay

:39:45. > :39:47.the long waited reports on the mental health task force was

:39:48. > :39:50.published. On the same government day -- day the government made a

:39:51. > :39:54.series of announcements to the media in response to the report. This is a

:39:55. > :39:57.courtesy that is still yet to be afforded to this house. Mr Speaker

:39:58. > :40:03.this is a vital moment for mental health in England. This is highly

:40:04. > :40:06.regrettable that this report was published during recess preventing

:40:07. > :40:10.members from all sides of this house from scrutinising its findings and

:40:11. > :40:12.questioning the government on the response to it. Can you advise the

:40:13. > :40:13.Mr Speaker