division_name: United Kingdom&#8217;S Withdrawal from the European Union
motion: <p class="indent" pid="a695.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House notes the European Council Decision of <phrase class="date" code="2019-03-22">22 March</phrase> 2019 taken in agreement with the United Kingdom extending the period under Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union, which provides for an extension to the Article 50 period to <phrase class="date" code="2019-05-22">22 May</phrase> 2019 only if the House of Commons approves the Withdrawal Agreement by <phrase class="date" code="2019-03-29">29 March</phrase> 2019; notes that if the House does not do so by that date the Article 50 period will only as a matter of law be extended to <phrase class="date" code="2019-04-12">12 April</phrase> 2019 and that any extension beyond <phrase class="date" code="2019-05-22">22 May</phrase> 2019 would require the UK to bring forward the necessary Day of Poll Order to hold elections to the European Parliament; notes that Article 184 of the Withdrawal Agreement refers to the Political Declaration between the UK and EU agreed on <phrase class="date" code="2019-11-25">25 November</phrase> 2018, but that the EU has stated it remains open to negotiating changes to the Political Declaration; notes that the House is currently undertaking deliberations to identify whether there is a design for the future relationship that commands its support; notes that even should changes be sought to the Political Declaration, leaving the European Union with a deal still requires the Withdrawal Agreement; declares that it wishes to leave the EU with an agreement as soon as possible and does not wish to have a longer extension; therefore approves the Withdrawal Agreement, the Joint Instrument and the Unilateral Declaration laid before the House on <phrase class="date" code="2019-03-11">11 March</phrase> 2019 so that the UK can leave the EU on <phrase class="date" code="2019-05-22">22 May</phrase> 2019; notes that this approval  does not by itself meet the requirements of section 13(1)(b) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018; and resolves that it is content to proceed to the next steps of this process, including fulfilling section 13 of this Act.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a702.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the Union shall negotiate and conclude an agreement with that State, setting out the arrangements for its withdrawal, taking account of the framework for its future relationship with the Union.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a702.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;As for the link between the Withdrawal Agreement and the Political Declaration, to which you make reference in your letter, it can be made clear that these two documents, while being of a different nature, are part of the same negotiated package. In order to underline the close relationship between the two texts, they can be published side by side in the Official Journal in a manner reflecting the link between the two as provided for in Article 50&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a702.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we agreed the withdrawal agreement in principle last week, the withdrawal agreement goes alongside the future relationship, it&#8217;s the future relationship that actually delivers, if you like, on people&#8217;s concerns in the withdrawal agreement.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a702.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Getting that future relationship right is necessary but nothing&#8217;s agreed until everything is agreed.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a702.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the link between them means that the commitments of one cannot be banked without the commitments of the other.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a702.4/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The EU has been clear that they come as a package. Bad faith by either side in negotiating the legal instruments that will deliver the future relationship laid out in the political declaration would be a breach of their legal obligations under the withdrawal agreement.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-01-14">14 January</phrase> 2019; Vol. 652, c. 826.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a705.9/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;What I am talking about is not a further exchange of letters but a significant and legally binding change to the withdrawal agreement. Negotiating such a change will not be easy. It will involve reopening the withdrawal agreement&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-01-29">29 January</phrase> 2019; Vol. 653, c. 678.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a720.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;British Governments have lied about the EU for decades. This deal is the final deceit&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a727.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;setting out the arrangements for its withdrawal, taking account of the framework for its future relationship with the Union.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a727.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;One cannot be banked&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a727.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">without the commitments of the other.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-01-14">14 January</phrase> 2019; Vol. 652, c. 826.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a727.1/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;In the event that the withdrawal agreement is approved by the House of Commons by <phrase class="date" code="2019-03-29">29 March</phrase> 2019 at the latest, the period provided for in article 50(3) of the Treaty of European Union is extended until <phrase class="date" code="2019-05-22">22 May</phrase> 2019.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a727.1/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If the United Kingdom is still a member state on the  23-<phrase class="date" code="2019-05-26">26 May</phrase> 2019&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a727.1/14" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it will be under the obligation to hold the elections to the European Parliament in accordance with Union law. It is to be noted that the United Kingdom would have to give notice of the poll by <phrase class="date" code="2019-04-12">12 April</phrase> 2019 in order to hold such elections.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a729.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I&#8217;m past caring. It&#8217;s like the living dead in here.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a729.7/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We believe it is necessary to agree the terms of our future partnership alongside our withdrawal, reaching agreement on both within the two years allowed by Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a738.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;excludes any re-opening of the Withdrawal Agreement. Any unilateral commitment, statement or other act by the United Kingdom should be compatible with the letter and the spirit of the Withdrawal Agreement.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a745.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The UK Government&#8217;s policy remains to leave the European Union on the basis of the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration agreed in November&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a745.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the House of Commons rejected the deal for a second time&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a745.0/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Some Members of Parliament have interpreted that this means a further change to the deal&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a745.0/15" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it remains my intention to bring the deal back to the House&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a745.0/17" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I intend to put forward a motion as soon as possible under section 13&#8230;and make the argument for the orderly withdrawal&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a755.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I&#8217;m past caring. It&#8217;s like the living dead in here.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a757.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we will become a &#8216;vassal state&#8217; many of whose laws will have been created abroad and over which we have no influence.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a758.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the voice of remain will be heard&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a758.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we will never accept Brexit&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a764.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the link between them means that the commitments of one cannot be banked without the commitments of the other.&#8221;&#8212;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-01-14">14 January</phrase> 2019; Vol. 652, c. 826.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a764.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we won&#8217;t agree the leaving part, the withdrawal agreement, until we&#8217;ve got what we want in the future because these two go together&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a765.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It is clear that the House does not support this deal.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-01-15">15 January</phrase> 2019; Vol. 652, c. 1125.]</p>