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The Prime Minister should have given Parliament broad heads of agreement right at the start, so that she could understand what Parliament wanted. Secretaries of State have resigned—we are now on our third Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. Ministers have resigned. This is a crisis of the Government’s own making, and the
On Thursday 14 March 2019 the House of Commons voted on the following motion on whether to extend Article 50:
Today’s motion is substantially the same as the previous two, so the House is being asked to vote on the deal once again. It is the Government who have put us in this position. Their red lines were drawn right at the beginning and formed the boundaries for the negotiations. There are ongoing investigations into
After the House of Commons voted to extend Article 50 by a majority of 210 votes (Ayes: 412, Noes: 202) on Thursday 14 March 2019, I responded to an emergency business statement from the Leader of the House:
On Wednesday 13 March 2019, the Government was defeated three times as the House of Commons voted against leaving the European Union without a deal.
Following the vote on Tuesday 12 March 2019, I responded to an emergency business statement from the Leader of the House outlining the Government's next steps:
The Government’s Withdrawal Agreement was agreed with the European Union on 25 November 2018. It was HM Opposition that first called for a ‘meaningful vote’, and after two years of negotiations, the Government scheduled the ‘meaningful vote’ to be on 11 December 2018. However, the Government fearing that it would lose then withdrew the vote.
On Monday 11 March I attended ‘Tackling Plastic Pollution', co-hosted by the APPG on the Prevention of Plastic Waste, Plastic Oceans UK and the Coalition for Global Prosperity, about the damage that single-use plastic products are doing to Earth's ecosystems.