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HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionI am grateful to the hon. Lady for the opportunity to do so, because there is high anxiety in Northern Ireland, and indeed across Ireland as a whole—across all different…13 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionI am grateful for that opportunity to speak about Northern Ireland, but I must now press on and talk about the impact on health matters. A no-deal would have a huge impact on our…13 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionNo, I am going to make progress. Farming would also be badly hit. The National Farmers Union has been clear—I think it set this out this morning—that the proposed tariff regime…13 Mar 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActThis has been a very important debate, and tonight’s vote will be one of the most significant votes this House will ever take. I want to thank all those who have spoken in the…12 Mar 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActI will not give way, because I have just looked at the clock. Mr Speaker, I want to end with this. I have been in the role of shadow Brexit Secretary for two and a half years; it…12 Mar 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActI engaged with that point, because it is important. I have dealt with it a number of times from the Dispatch Box. I have made it clear on a number of occasions that the Labour…12 Mar 2019HANSARD Exiting the European UnionI will wait to see the detail, but as I understand it the withdrawal agreement is being placed on the Table tonight for a vote tomorrow—this agreement unchanged. If I am wrong…11 Mar 2019HANSARD Exiting the European UnionI do not complain for not having had advance notice of the Minister’s statement. I am not sure that he has got advance notice of it. [ Laughter. ] What an absurd situation the…11 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsThirty days ago the Government backed the Brady amendment and the Prime Minister said she would try to obtain “legally binding changes to the withdrawal agreement that deal with…28 Feb 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsWell, this may be Brexit questions, but it is clearly not Brexit answers. The Secretary of State can evade questions all he likes, but his evasion tells its own story. He knows…28 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUI am grateful for that intervention, because what it demonstrates is the point I was trying to make about the customs union. If the Government Front Bench say our political…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUI am grateful for the right hon. Lady’s intervention for two reasons. First, I have been very hard on the Prime Minister, I think justifiably, for the fact that she set out the…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUI agree wholeheartedly with my right hon. Friend.27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUI have not finished answering the question, and it is an important question. If that cannot be done, we will be faced in two weeks with what I think will be the Prime Minister’s…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUI have not finished answering the question yet. What I am putting before the House today is entirely consistent with what we said in our manifesto that we would seek to do.…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUI am grateful for that intervention and I agree with it. This is really the heart of it: we know what the problem is, we know what the House thinks about the backstop and we know…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUI was and I have. I have visited that border many times. I visited it with the Police Service of Northern Ireland many times when I was working there for five years—as it policed…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUIt is important to appreciate that at the moment, I am pressing an amendment that favours a Brexit deal. In our manifesto we said that, if elected, we would seek to negotiate. We…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUI understand the point and the force with which it is put. Given the conversations that have gone on here and in Brussels, I have to say that I really do not see the prospect that…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUYes, and I think that was repeated by the first Brexit Secretary on a number of occasions, although I am never quite sure whether I should quote the first Brexit Secretary—…27 Feb 2019