Brexit: No Deal

Baroness Redfern Excerpts

Tuesday 11th September 2018 Lords Chamber

[Lord Callanan]

I can confirm that unless a deal with the EU is agreed, we will have no deal.

[Baroness Redfern (Con)]

My Lords, deal or no deal, does the Minister agree that clamouring for a second referendum erodes the basis of democracy by suggesting that rule by majority is an insufficient condition for democratic legitimacy? Would that therefore lead to a third referendum, and a fourth to verify the third?

[Lord Callanan]

I agree with my noble friend that we have had a people’s vote and we are certainly not contemplating a second one. We are going to implement the result of the first referendum in a way that commands the support of this Parliament.