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HANSARD Article 50 ExtensionI will try to keep my comments short because many others want to speak and I have spoken a lot in the last couple of weeks. As we all know, it feels like groundhog day, but we…20 Mar 2019HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. Further to your, if I may put it this way, intervention—your ruling, perhaps—yesterday, the Government have today announced, no doubt also in…19 Mar 2019HANSARDSpeaker’s StatementOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. This is what happens when you do not seek consensus and compromise from the beginning, but lay down red lines and doggedly stick to them with an…18 Mar 2019HANSARD Article 50 Extension ProcedureMay I congratulate the right hon. Member for Putney (Justine Greening) on securing this question? As you know, Mr Speaker, it had widespread cross-party support, and rightly so. I…18 Mar 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionFascinating. May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—a knight of the realm, of course, and perhaps a member of a new elite—whether he understands that across the length and breadth of…14 Mar 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Chesterfield (Toby Perkins). I rise to support amendment (h), tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Dr Wollaston) in…14 Mar 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the European Unionrose —14 Mar 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionWill the right hon. Gentleman give way?14 Mar 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionShame on you! [Interruption.]14 Mar 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionI am listening to what the right hon. and learned Gentleman is saying with great care. It seems that the Opposition’s policy has now changed again. As I understood it from his…14 Mar 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionThe right hon. Gentleman is very generous in giving way, and I accept that I have the benefit of Hansard. The Prime Minister was clear that the Government would, “if the House…14 Mar 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionI do not doubt, and I think it is true that the whole House does not doubt, that the right hon. Gentleman is a man of his word, and when he gives a commitment at the Dispatch Box…14 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionI thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. The cat is out of the bag: on his own admission this motion does not take no deal off the table. I will be guided by you, Mr…13 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionCan I take the hon. Gentleman back a few sentences? He discussed the general election. I do not want to delve into the success of the SNP or whatever, because he made an important…13 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionOn a point of order, Mr Speaker.13 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European Unionindicated dissent.13 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European Unionindicated assent.13 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionI have to say that it is a real pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North West Leicestershire (Andrew Bridgen). With every word he says, I remind myself exactly why I took the…13 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. It is a constitutional crisis— [ Interruption. ] I am sorry if it bores people on that side of the House who have just voted as Conservatives for…13 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. Whether I was ever a distinguished member of the Bar is debatable, but I can tell the right hon. Gentleman as a member of the criminal Bar that we…13 Mar 2019