division_name: Prime Minister&#8217;s Statement &#8212; European Union (Withdrawal) Acts
motion: <p class="indent" pid="a598.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That, in light of the new deal agreed with the European Union, which enables the United Kingdom to respect the result of the referendum on its membership of the European Union and to leave the European Union on <phrase class="date" code="2019-10-31">31 October</phrase> with a deal, and for the purposes of section 1(1)(a) of the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 and section 13(1)(b) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, this House approves the negotiated withdrawal agreement titled Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and the framework for the future relationship titled Political Declaration setting out the framework for the future relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom that the United Kingdom has concluded with the European Union under Article 50(2) of the Treaty on European Union, as well as a Declaration by Her Majesty&#8217;s Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning the operation of the Democratic consent in Northern Ireland provision of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, copies of these three documents which were laid before this House on Saturday <phrase class="date" code="2019-10-19">19 October</phrase>.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a598.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House approves the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union on exit day, without a withdrawal agreement as defined in section 20(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a607.6/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We respect the result of the&#8230;referendum&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a607.6/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;any outcome&#8230;must be subject to a referendum and we would campaign for remain&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a607.6/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;They were about the Political Declaration&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a607.6/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a mechanism for universal exit&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a611.4/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Parties envisage having a trading relationship on goods that is as close as possible, with a view to facilitating the ease of legitimate trade.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a611.4/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a trading relationship on goods that is as close as possible&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a618.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The reason I am inclined to vote for this one&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a618.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;is very simple&#8230; if the trade talks are not successful&#8230;then we could leave on no-deal terms.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a618.5/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;are not successful&#8230; then we could leave on no-deal terms.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a619.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;regulatory checks and even customs controls between Great Britain and Northern Ireland&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a619.3/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;damaging&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a619.3/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;fabric of the Union&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a619.3/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;no British Conservative government could or should sign up to any such arrangement&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a621.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;this House has considered the matter but withholds approval unless and until implementing legislation is passed.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a623.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;What a fool I was. I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so was Ireland, in the political game that was to get the Conservative Party into power.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2019-12-14">14 December</phrase> 1921; Vol. 48, c. 44.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a625.5/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Five separate certificates all have to be done on October 31. For a small exporter that is possibly trying to sell 30 kilos of top quality langoustines to a restaurant in Paris, switch the lights off, that restaurant owner is going to go and buy his lovely langoustines somewhere else.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a625.5/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;This deal would be a disaster for working people. It would hammer the economy, cost jobs and sell workers&#8217; rights down the river. Boris Johnson has negotiated an even worse deal than Theresa May. All MPs should vote against it.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a627.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;No means we stay in, we are members of the European Union.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a641.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;frictionless access to the single market.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a643.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;would be a disaster for working people&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a643.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it would risk every workplace right and leave public services exposed and vulnerable.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a643.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;by further diluting the legal protections for labour and environmental standards, the prime minister has made the laws that underpin workers&#8217; rights and public safety extremely vulnerable in future trade deals.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a643.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;commitments to the closest possible trading relationship in goods have gone&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a643.2/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;will add cost and bureaucracy and our companies will face a lack of clarity inhibiting investment and planning.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a643.2/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;deal remains inadequate on services&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a643.2/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;serious concerns about the direction of the future UK-EU relationship.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a644.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;environmental safeguards are absent from the new withdrawal agreement&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a644.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;provides neither an enforcement body with independence&#8230; nor a commitment to non-regression in domestic law.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a644.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;no regulation whatsoever&#8212;no minimum wage, no maternity or paternity rights, no unfair dismissal rights, no pension rights&#8221;?&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-05-10">10 May</phrase> 2012; Vol. 545, c. 209.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a644.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;weight of employment regulation is&#8230; backbreaking&#8221;?</p>