EU Withdrawal Agreement

Douglas Ross Excerpts
Tuesday 18th December 2018

(5 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Steve Barclay Portrait Stephen Barclay
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I shall take two more interventions and then I will make some progress.

Douglas Ross Portrait Douglas Ross (Moray) (Con)
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I thank the Secretary of State for giving way as I was not afforded the courtesy of being able to intervene on the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Ian Blackford). As he spoke about the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, he set out to the House how great the White Paper was that the SNP had produced. The SNP no longer stands by its White Paper on Scottish independence. Does that not just show what the SNP is all about? It is not even worth listening to, because what it speaks about, not even it can defend.

Steve Barclay Portrait Stephen Barclay
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I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. It is perhaps not a surprise that, notwith- standing its 800 pages, one could finish reading it and still be left confused as to what the SNP’s position is.