Rupa Huq
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Progress on EU Negotiations
Rupa Huq Excerpts(5 years, 5 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
I am very happy to give my hon. Friend that commitment, and he is absolutely right. That is why I have said, as I have said before, that any second referendum would not be a people’s vote but a politicians’ vote.
Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton) (Lab)
There is a strange sense of déjà vu and, indeed, anti-climax in this document after more than two years. The words “shall be decided” occur 127 times, and paragraph 147, at the end, states that a high-level conference will be convened at least every six months, with no guarantees of anything. That is a possible Brexternity. At what date and time will these negotiations ever end? With both this and with last week’s so-called deal, will the Prime Minister not just admit that she is flogging a dead horse?
The Prime Minister
I have made clear before that we will be working to ensure that the future relationship can be in place on 1 January 2021.