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HANSARDUnited Kingdom’s Withdrawal from the European UnionIt is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry). I admire her consistency, but she will not agree with what I am about to say. I am afraid that I did…29 Mar 2019HANSARD EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions)Will the hon. Gentleman give way, as he did name me?27 Mar 2019HANSARD EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions)Will the hon. Gentleman give way?27 Mar 2019HANSARD EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Motions)On a point of order, Mr Speaker. The hon. Gentleman named me and I think it is a convention that the named Member can answer back. He used a quote from a television programme—27 Mar 2019HANSARDEuropean CouncilThe European Commission said today that all preparations for no deal had been completed, and last week the Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, the hon. Member…25 Mar 2019HANSARD Article 50 ExtensionTime is short and I would like to press on. Other people want to speak. David Cameron won the election and then, probably to his horror, he had to deliver the referendum. The then…20 Mar 2019HANSARD Article 50 ExtensionI will be brief. I have listened carefully to the debate, at the beginning of which I had no intention of speaking. I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Wirral South (Alison…20 Mar 2019HANSARDEU Withdrawal Joint Committee: OversightI congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Rayleigh and Wickford (Mr Francois) on applying for this urgent question and I thank you, Mr Speaker, for granting it. Ever…20 Mar 2019HANSARD Article 50 ExtensionTime is really short. I am just going to finish now. The two main parties need to think about this. If there is any sort of extension beyond next week, it will be disastrous for…20 Mar 2019HANSARDNo-deal EU Exit PreparationsMay I pursue the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr Duncan Smith)? In a statement issued yesterday, Mr Barnier said, quite…20 Mar 2019HANSARD Article 50 ExtensionWill the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?20 Mar 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActTheir views do count. I remember going to an Ulster Farmers Union debate at Balmoral Park during the referendum campaign and leave won that debate. There are varied views in…12 Mar 2019HANSARDWithdrawal Agreement: Legal OpinionI congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend on his work, and on the splendid candour of his statement and comments this morning. I also congratulate the Secretary of State for…12 Mar 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActIt is always a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry). We do not agree. The element that has not been mentioned at any time so far in this…12 Mar 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActIt is utterly bizarre that Cabinet Ministers have written articles in the popular prints attacking Government policy and the manifesto on which they were elected. There is an…12 Mar 2019HANSARDEU Withdrawal Agreement: Legal ChangesI welcome my hon. Friend to the Dispatch Box and congratulate him and his colleagues on getting the European Union to agree to set up a taskforce or workstream to work up the…11 Mar 2019HANSARD Exiting the European UnionIf the alternative arrangements are now effectively going to be written into the treaty in a legally binding manner and with a legally binding date, that is good news. However,…11 Mar 2019HANSARDArticle 50: ExtensionI entirely agree with the Secretary of State that extending article 50 is a very unsubtle way of thwarting the will of the 17.4 million people who want to leave. Does he agree…28 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUMy right hon. Friend is being very generous in giving way. Before he moves on to the question of alternative arrangements, he and the Brexit Secretary are to be strongly…27 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionI congratulate the Prime Minister and the Brexit Secretary on persuading the European Union to accept a taskforce to work up the alternative arrangements group’s proposals into a…26 Feb 2019