Leaving the European Union Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Leaving the European Union

Alex Sobel Excerpts
Wednesday 22nd May 2019

(4 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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What will happen is that the withdrawal agreement Bill will be published and the draft workers’ rights Bill will be published, and we will see them progressing in tandem.

Alex Sobel Portrait Alex Sobel (Leeds North West) (Lab/Co-op)
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The Prime Minister has repeatedly talked about having a democratic mandate. However, the Information Commissioner’s Office found repeated data breaches in Cambridge Analytica’s work for Vote Leave, and Chris Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, said:

“if we allow cheating in our democratic process …what about next time? What about the time after that? This is a breach of the law. This is cheating…this is an irreversible change to the constitutional settlement of this country.”

Does the Prime Minister not really need a democratic mandate for this withdrawal agreement, considering how tampered with and damaged the campaign was in the last referendum?