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HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018I am quoting the chief executive of Airbus, the Road Haulage Association and the country’s major food retailers. These are not my warnings—these are their warnings. There was a…29 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018rose —29 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018In supporting amendment (n), the Prime Minister has driven a coach and horses through the deal that she asked us to endorse a fortnight ago. If my right hon. Friend is right that…29 Jan 2019HANSARDBusiness CommunityAirbus employs 14,000 people in this country, and we have a valuable and important aerospace manufacturing cluster in Wolverhampton. The chief executive of Airbus said today:…24 Jan 2019HANSARDHolocaust Memorial DayNo words—certainly none that I have—can describe adequately the horror of the Holocaust, the attempt to wipe out the Jewish population of Europe, the killing of Roma, gay people,…24 Jan 2019HANSARD Leaving the European UnionThe Prime Minister has set out today, and on many occasions in recent weeks, her implacable opposition to any kind of public vote to establish public consent to the terms on which…21 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActIt is more than a potential—it is a racing certainty. It is an illusion to think that this argument is finished on 30 March if we agree this withdrawal agreement—that is simply…09 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it is significant that a number of other countries would agree with us on that, even in the two years since the vote took place. As I said,…09 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActWhile my hon. Friend is on the point of communities that feel left out of the national story, does he agree that nobody in the European Union is preventing us from building more…09 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Aberdeen South (Ross Thomson) and my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton North East (Sir David Crausby). After a month’s delay, we…09 Jan 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActThe Minister is making an important point, because the Good Friday agreement says that people in Northern Ireland can choose to be British, Irish or both, and that “both” is…09 Jan 2019HANSARDEU Withdrawal Agreement: Legal ChangesIt is a new year, but it does feel like a groundhog statement, with exactly the same strategy as before: trying to force Parliament to choose between a bad deal for the UK and no…07 Jan 2019HANSARD Points of OrderFurther to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I am grateful to you for the statement that you have just made. I was at Abingdon Green earlier this afternoon and witnessed what…07 Jan 2019