Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Vince Cable Excerpts
Wednesday 23rd May 2018

(5 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Vince Cable Portrait Sir Vince Cable (Twickenham) (LD)
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The Prime Minister and the Labour Leader of the Opposition—[Interruption.]

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. Let us hear the full eloquence of the right hon. Gentleman’s flow and the flow of his eloquence.

Vince Cable Portrait Sir Vince Cable
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The Prime Minister and the Labour Leader of the Opposition both agree that we should leave the single market and leave the European Union customs union and that the public should not have a final say on the Brexit deal, so will the Prime Minister dispense with our tradition of party political point scoring and, in the spirit that I am setting, publicly thank the leadership of the Labour party for its help and support in making Brexit happen?

Theresa May Portrait The Prime Minister
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First of all, I am not sure about the position of the Labour party, because it is talking about a second referendum. Secondly, can I just say to the right hon. Gentleman that there is nobody in this House who knows more about party political point scoring than the Liberal Democrats?