division_name: European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill &#8212; Power to notify withdrawal from the EU
motion: <p class="indent" pid="e39.7/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Of course, these guarantees would need to be reciprocal. It&#8217;s also important what guarantees the British citizens living and working in other member states of the European Union will have.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e42.7/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Government will conduct the negotiations on behalf of the United Kingdom, and, like any negotiator, it will need room to manoeuvre if it is to secure a good outcome.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e44.4/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Within three months of exercising the power&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e46.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;would be to hand over one of our main cards in the negotiations&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e46.5/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a wide range of concerns of EU nationals since the referendum, including stress, and anxiety and feelings of depression to practical concerns about pensions and healthcare, children being abused in the school playground and worries over the ability to work in the UK in the future.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e48.5/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;worst case scenario&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e48.5/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the cost of change is simply too high to even consider it&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e48.5/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a complete breakdown in negotiations represents a very destructive outcome leading to mutually assured damage for the EU and the UK. Both sides would suffer economic losses and harm to their international reputations.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e49.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The prior approval of&#8230;Parliament shall&#8230;be required in relation to any decision by the Prime Minister that the United Kingdom shall leave the European Union without an agreement&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e49.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Treaties shall cease to apply to the State in question&#8230;two years after the notification&#8230;unless the European Council&#8230; unanimously decides to extend this period.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e63.5/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;They need to know that what our negotiators say our negotiators can deliver.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2017-02-20">20 February</phrase> 2017; Vol. 779, c. 32.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e63.6/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Theresa May has indicated that&#8230;she said she will not trigger the formal process for leaving the EU until there is an agreed &#8216;UK approach&#8217; backed by Scotland.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e67.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;perfectly okay if we weren&#8217;t able to get an agreement.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e71.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The sovereignty of Parliament is a fundamental principle of the UK constitution.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="e72.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="e72.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 335, Noes 287.</p>