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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 (Rule of Law)

"The part of the motion that I want to speak to is about politicians upholding the rule of law, and I have to say right at the outset that I think it is absolutely incredible to hear the Leader of the Opposition lecturing anybody else—[Interruption]—lecturing anybody else about …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 (Rule of Law)

"The hon. Lady asks why I don’t go and sit somewhere else. I am sitting here—[Interruption.] I am standing here—[Interruption.]..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 (Rule of Law)

"I will explain why: I am standing here because I was elected—[Interruption.] Because I think—[Interruption.]..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 (Rule of Law)

"The more Labour Members interrupt, the longer it will take: I am going to make these points. The reason I have not moved is that I did not leave the Labour party to join another party; I left the Labour party to shine a spotlight on the disgrace it has …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 (Rule of Law)

"Well, Mr Speaker, my speeches then were a lot shorter than yours...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 (Rule of Law)

"I am not going to argue that point, Mr Speaker.

This is a debate about whether politicians can be trusted to obey the rule of law, and there is not a single Labour figure in the past—not a single one—who would have backed violent street protest, as the shadow Chancellor …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 (Rule of Law)

"I have explained why I am not going over there, but I will tell the hon. Lady this...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 (Rule of Law)

"I am here because voters in Dudley North sent me here to represent them, and none of my views have changed on any of the things I stand up for—decency in politics, the rule of law—and everybody in Dudley knew exactly what I thought of these people at the last …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 (Rule of Law)

"We’ll see...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 (Rule of Law)

"Don’t worry about that.

No other senior figure in the Labour party’s history would have joked about lynching a female Member of Parliament. These people do not believe in the rule of law abroad, either. They always back the wrong side, whether it is the IRA, Hamas or Hezbollah, who …..."

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