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HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUTo reply immediately to the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn), it is not actually the duty of this House to surrender parliamentary government to government by…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUI think the hon. Gentleman is rather exaggerating, if I may say so. Is not the truth, as I wrote even in 1990, that if we take away the right of the people to decide their own…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUCan my hon. Friend, who is a fellow member of the European Scrutiny Committee, recall that very early on, in March last year, we said in our report that we were deeply concerned…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EULet me ask the right hon. Lady a question, as she is taking such a prominent part in this debate. It is the same question that I have put to several people today: would she…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUI do not concede what the hon. Gentleman says for one very good reason: it is part of the United Kingdom. That is my first point on control over laws. Article 4 is so offensive…27 Feb 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionWill my right hon. Friend accept that the Bill to delay article 50, to which the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper) has just referred,…26 Feb 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland Backstop: Conditional Interpretative DeclarationWould it also be relevant to consider the situation whereby a reservation by one party to a multilateral treaty is only binding on another party when the second party has not made…21 Feb 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland Backstop: Conditional Interpretative DeclarationI see him nodding his head, for which I am grateful. It really is important. We are not talking about something like a free trade agreement, like the one with Canada—the CETA…21 Feb 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland Backstop: Conditional Interpretative DeclarationI am deeply grateful to the hon. Lady because she expresses exactly my line of argument. I hope that it is understood that this is not a matter of being obstructive for its own…21 Feb 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland Backstop: Conditional Interpretative DeclarationI want to make just a few comments. I pay respect to my right hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) for coming forward with this ingenious and no doubt…21 Feb 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland Backstop: Conditional Interpretative DeclarationOn that point, if the arbitration arrangements to which my right hon. Friend is referring are by reference to the arrangements of the joint committee arbitration panel, that…21 Feb 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland Backstop: Conditional Interpretative DeclarationWill the Minister also accept that, as he has made clear, the only basis on which this entire analysis and investigation and possible wording could be effective in the…21 Feb 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland Backstop: Conditional Interpretative DeclarationI want to add a short and simple point to my right hon. Friend’s comment that this would be a political consideration. I used the words “manifest violation”, which is in fact a…21 Feb 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland Backstop: Conditional Interpretative DeclarationI want at this stage to ask my right hon. Friend to get on the record the fact that, of course, this is only a draft withdrawal agreement. Furthermore, it is not signed; we know…21 Feb 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland Backstop: Conditional Interpretative DeclarationThe other point to throw into this equation is the question of whether the European Court of Justice would, at the end of this process, be able to adjudicate on the outcome,…21 Feb 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland BackstopAs you know, Mr Speaker, I raised this matter urgently with you yesterday. Does my hon. and learned Friend accept that it is essential that when the Attorney General has had his…19 Feb 2019HANSARDUK Nationals returning from SyriaOn 1 September 2014, I raised the question of returning jihadists with the then Prime Minister—after the murder of Lee Rigby and before the murder of many other people in…18 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUMy right hon. and learned Friend referred to legislation. Of course, he voted for the Third Reading of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, which expressly states that the…14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUThe two previous motions, one in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale West (Sir Graham Brady) and the other in the name of my right hon. Friend the Member…14 Feb 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the EUMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. On the amendment tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Meriden, in reply to my question on Tuesday, which the Prime Minister…14 Feb 2019