EU Exit Negotiations Debate

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Department: Department for Exiting the European Union

Chris Leslie

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

EU Exit Negotiations

Chris Leslie Excerpts

Tax Avoidance and Evasion
Monday 13th November 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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The Secretary of State said yes.

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David Davis Portrait Mr Davis
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What I can say to my right hon. Friend is that if we do not have a withdrawal agreement, we cannot have a withdrawal agreement Bill—full stop.

Chris Leslie Portrait Mr Leslie
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Has not the Secretary of State just given the game away on what a sham this offer is? It is totally worthless to Parliament and essentially tries to buy people off by saying, “Look, we’re going to give you an Act to shape things.” In fact, it is a post hoc, after-the-horse-has-bolted piece of legislation. We might have left the European Union—the treaty and the deal would have been done—and Parliament could do nothing at all to shape the nature of the withdrawal agreement. The Secretary of State has to do much better than this. Parliament must have a say on the withdrawal agreement before we are thrown over the cliff edge.

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