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HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister does not seem to realise that she does not have a deal that has been supported by this House. Our proposals for a customs union give us alignment on workers’…27 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsThat sounds awfully like a recipe for regression away from those standards and for damaging workers’ rights. After the two largest defeats in parliamentary history, surely the…27 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsThis chaotic and incompetent Government have driven our country into chaos. We know the scale of the crisis when the TUC and the CBI are united in writing to the Prime Minister…27 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe only problem with the Prime Minister’s answer is that her deal has been twice defeated in this House, in one case by the largest ever majority by which a Government have lost…27 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe Prime Minister knows perfectly well that our policy is for a customs union to protect jobs and society. She will also know that the TUC and the CBI have called for a customs…27 Mar 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. I wish to congratulate the House on taking control. The Government’s approach has been an abject failure, and this House must now find a solution.…25 Mar 2019HANSARDEuropean CouncilI thank the Prime Minister for the advance copy of her statement and for the meetings that we have had in recent days. The Government’s approach to Brexit has now become a…25 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe last time the Prime Minister tried her meaningful vote, she only managed 242 votes—slightly up on the previous attempt, but nevertheless a decisive rejection. Our plan…20 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsI am not sure that there was an answer to my question there. I wanted no-deal taken off the table; the House has taken no-deal off the table; it is time the Prime Minister took…20 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsI start by sending my condolences to all the families and friends of victims of the terror attack in New Zealand last week. The terrible events in Christchurch should remind us…20 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsThe job of Parliament is to hold Government to account, but the Prime Minister does not seem to understand that. When she was first defeated, she promised legally binding…20 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsTo describe the parliamentary process as one of indulgence does not show much respect for the democratic process that sent us here in the first place. The House has twice rejected…20 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsIt was not clear at all, other than that the Prime Minister is going to try again with what we will now term MV3. Surely, after two big rejections by the House, she must have…20 Mar 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. After the last few days of Government chaos and some defeats, all of us now have the opportunity and the responsibility to work together to find a…14 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsFormer Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the right hon. Member for North Shropshire (Mr Paterson), said while campaigning to leave in the referendum—this…13 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsI do have sympathy for the Prime Minister with her voice, and I hope it soon recovers. I understand how painful this is. The Prime Minister’s deal has failed, and she no longer…13 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. Tonight this House has once again definitely ruled out no deal. The Prime Minister said that the choice was between her deal and no deal. In the…13 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsI absolutely concur with the Prime Minister’s remarks about the disaster of the air crash in Ethiopia, and indeed the earlier crash in Asia that affected the same type of…13 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsWell, there may well be other votes, and the Prime Minister’s Brexit strategy is clearly in tatters. Her deal has been twice rejected and is now dead, and she is not even asking…13 Mar 2019HANSARDEngagementsIt would be rather reckless for the Prime Minister to rule out any option at the present time, I would have thought. I do not think her answer will help workers at Honda in…13 Mar 2019