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HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI think that we are in agreement to the extent that I do not believe that the UK has yet trespassed over its international legal obligations, and I agree that we want to get this…29 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI think that is clearly established law. It is perfectly possible to act within one’s domestic law and still breach one’s international obligations; however, I do not think that…29 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI recognise that that is a widely held argument.29 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillCan I just finish my point? Then I will happily give way to the hon. and learned Lady. Were it to get to the stage that the level of checks being insisted on threatened the…29 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI am not sure whether or not that is an argument for Brexit; on that basis, the Don Pacifico affair was a great statement of national sovereignty, but I do not think it was a…29 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillOne of the most salutary but, in retrospect, useful put-downs I ever received when I was a young barrister came when I perhaps overindulged in hyperbole in advancing arguments to…29 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI am sure that it is a matter of privilege for the House, but I just come back to the point: I do not think that that engages with the issue we are concerned with here. Of course,…29 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillMay I press the Minister a little further in relation to amendment 13 and so on? I accept “preserving a remedy”, but it is a remedy by way of a declaration of incompatibility, as…29 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI normally try to give way, but time is short; I hope that the hon. Gentleman will forgive me. I hope that we will be able to say, as a number of hon. Friends of mine have been…29 Sept 2020HANSARDDomestic and International Law ComplianceThe Attorney General referred to the letter that she sent to me and other Select Committee Chairs on 10 September, which included a statement of the Government’s legal position on…24 Sept 2020HANSARDUK Internal Market Bill: Rule of LawI also wish the Lord Chancellor a happy birthday. I calculate that I have known him for about half his life. Throughout that time, I have never had the slightest doubt as to his…22 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillMy hon. Friend, whose experience in local government is huge and much more recent than mine, is absolutely right. That is the irony—what was a theoretical process none the less…22 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillThe first point is that there have to be professional qualifications for the people qualified to be recognised. The Bill does not seem to cause any difficulty about that. I was…22 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI am sure the hon. Lady would be disappointed if she did not get every speaker to give way to her at some point, so I will add myself to her set.22 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI hope that my hon. Friends will forgive me if I do not go down exactly the same route as some of the conversations we have had recently. I had a good deal to say yesterday on the…22 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI will certainly give way to my hon. Friend, who knows a great deal about this.22 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillThis has not been the most edifying spectacle for the House of Commons over the past few days, but I hope that, at the end of the day, we can find a constructive way forward. I…21 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI must press on now, and not take any further interventions for some time out of respect for others who wish to speak in this debate. The Government now accept that they must come…21 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillI thank my hon. Friend for the constructive tone that he and members of the Government have adopted in these matters. It enables some of us who otherwise would not have been able…21 Sept 2020HANSARD United Kingdom Internal Market BillIt is presumptuous, it seems to me, of the hon. Gentleman to try to suggest how any of my hon. and right hon. Friends might choose to vote, just as it would be presumptuous of me…21 Sept 2020