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Prime Minister's question asked in the House of Commons, by Lord Coaker (Labour). It was answered on Wednesday, 4 September 2019 on behalf of the Wales Office.

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Question

Q10

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Vernon Coaker (Gedling) (Lab):

Yesterday, the Prime Minister booted 21 MPs out of his own party for voting against a reckless no-deal Brexit. They included well-respected Members of this House, including a former Chancellor, Churchill’s grandson and the Father of the House. Presumably, that was done on the orders of the Prime Minister’s chief of staff. Given the fact that the Prime Minister himself voted against the former Prime Minister’s deal without losing the Whip, does this not demonstrate to the British public his view of life—namely, that there is one rule for him and another for everyone else ?

Answer

I am not going to take any lectures from anybody in the Labour party about how to run a party. Theirs is a party in which good, hard-working MPs are daily hounded out by antisemitic mobs. Let us be absolutely clear: if the hon. Gentleman is interested in democracy, I hope he has been listening to what I have been saying today. In an anti-democratic way, the Bill that will come before the House today would hand over this country’s right to decide how long to remain in the EU, and it would hand it over to the EU itself. That is what the Bill involves. If the hon. Gentleman thinks that is a good idea, let him submit it to the judgment of the British people in an election.

Secondary information

Type
Oral question
Reference
664 c173 
Session
2017-19
Oral question type
1st Supplementary
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Conservative Brexit
Link
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