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HANSARDEU Exit Day AmendmentI am extraordinarily grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, but I wonder if we now might return to the relatively narrow ambit of the statutory instrument.27 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring Statement: Block GrantI hope colleagues across the House will want to join me in extending a warm welcome today to the United States Ambassador to the Court of St James’s, Woody Johnson. Woody,…27 Mar 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderI will come to the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies), but first I call Vicky Ford.27 Mar 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderI will come to the hon. Gentleman, but I did promise the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies), and it would seem unkind to deny him a moment longer.27 Mar 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderThe short answer is by persistence: persist, persist, persist; pose questions; press the case; push the point of view that you wish to express. This is a very serious matter—I…27 Mar 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his point of order. I will indeed make a statement or an announcement to the House on that matter in a timely way. Of course, it is…27 Mar 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderAs the hon. Gentleman well knows, and he comes from a constituency that is very academic, rather highbrow, intellectual—27 Mar 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderThe hon. Lady observes from a sedentary position that “he is one”, meaning that the hon. Gentleman is highbrow, intellectual and academic. He has found his own salvation. He has…27 Mar 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseThere is no need to move the closure because this is a time-limited debate, and the time limit will be well known to the hon. Gentleman. If he can just contain his impatience,…27 Mar 2019HANSARD EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions)With this it will be convenient to discuss the following motions: Motion (D)— Common market 2.0 — That this House— (1) directs Her Majesty’s Government to— renegotiate the…27 Mar 2019HANSARD EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions)No, no—I have already called the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay and he has started to speak. In any case, I am on my feet, so the hon. Gentleman should not rise to his…27 Mar 2019HANSARD EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions)Order. I am immensely grateful to the right hon. Gentleman.27 Mar 2019HANSARD EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions)I have now to announce the results of the deferred Divisions held earlier today. I shall do so with the greatest possible dispatch. The Question relating to relationships and sex…27 Mar 2019HANSARD EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions)Order. After the House has heard from the hon. Member for Sedgefield (Phil Wilson), I am afraid that it will be necessary to reduce the time limit on Back-Bench speeches to three…27 Mar 2019HANSARDEU Exit Day AmendmentI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his point of order. Obviously I well remember the exchanges, and I am aware of the particular interaction to which he is referring.…27 Mar 2019HANSARDEU Exit Day AmendmentI simply say to the hon. Lady that it is not for me to offer an exegesis of what individuals might think about our constitutional arrangements, including the use or otherwise of…27 Mar 2019HANSARDEU Exit Day AmendmentI will now suspend the House until the outcome of votes on motions—[Hon. Members: “Oh!”] Let me advise the House that it was very much the hope of our extremely dedicated and…27 Mar 2019HANSARDEU Exit Day AmendmentOrder.27 Mar 2019HANSARD EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes)Order. Perhaps colleagues would do the right hon. Gentleman the courtesy— [ Interruption. ] Yes, I say to the right hon. Member for Derbyshire Dales (Sir Patrick McLoughlin) that…27 Mar 2019HANSARD EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes)Thank you. I call the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.27 Mar 2019