division_name: Business of the House (Today) &#8212; UK&#8217;s Withdrawal from the European Union
motion: <p class="indent" pid="c553.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Line 2, at beginning insert &#8216;for a period ending on <phrase class="date" code="2019-06-30">30 June</phrase> 2019&#8217;&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c553.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;leave out from &#8216;House&#8217; to end and add &#8216;instructs the Prime Minister to request an extension to the Article 50 period at the European Council in March 2019 sufficient for the purposes of legislating for and conducting a public vote&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c555.5/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;in such a way as to bring out the salient points of criticism, to prevent repetition and overlapping&#8230;.and where several amendments deal with the same point, to choose the more effective and the better drafted.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c558.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c558.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">(1) notes the resolutions of the House of 12 and <phrase class="date" code="2019-03-13">13 March</phrase>, and accordingly agrees that the Government will seek to agree with the European Union an extension of the period specified in Article 50(3);</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c558.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">(2) agrees that, if the House has passed a resolution approving the negotiated withdrawal agreement and the framework for the future relationship for the purposes of section 13(1)(b) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 by <phrase class="date" code="2019-03-20">20 March</phrase> 2019, then the Government will seek to agree with the European Union a one-off extension of the period specified in Article 50(3) for a period ending on <phrase class="date" code="2019-06-30">30 June</phrase> 2019 for the purpose of passing the necessary EU exit legislation; and</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c558.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">(3) notes that, if the House has not passed a resolution approving the negotiated withdrawal agreement and the framework for the future relationship for the purposes of section 13(1)(b) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 by <phrase class="date" code="2019-03-20">20 March</phrase> 2019, then it is highly likely that the European Council at its meeting the following day would require a clear purpose for any extension, not least to determine its length, and that any extension beyond <phrase class="date" code="2019-06-30">30 June</phrase> 2019 would require the United Kingdom to hold European Parliament elections in May 2019.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c560.6/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;During my consultations ahead of&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c560.6/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I will appeal to the EU27 to be open to a long extension if the UK finds it necessary to rethink its #Brexit strategy and build consensus around it.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c561.8/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There is no need to rush. We must take our time and get it right.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c564.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a second extension is not considered to be viable&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c565.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;from the date of entry into force of the withdrawal agreement or, failing that, two years after the notification&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c565.4/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Every national of a Member State shall be a citizen of the Union. Citizenship of the Union shall be additional to and not replace national citizenship&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c565.4/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Citizens are directly represented at Union level in the European Parliament.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c567.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;This is an oversimplified and ultimately fallacious presentation of the situation&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c567.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if the political will&#8230;is there, a legal mechanism can be found&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c567.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Even in the case that the UK would not hold elections, the new European Parliament could validly be constituted.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c568.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;bring forward the necessary legislation to change the exit date commensurate with that extension.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-02-26">26 February</phrase> 2019; Vol. 655, c. 167.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c569.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if the House votes for an extension, seek to agree that extension approved by the House with the EU and bring forward the necessary legislation to change the exit date commensurate with that extension.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-02-26">26 February</phrase> 2019; Vol. 655, c. 167.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c572.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;debate on that motion may continue until 7.00 pm at which time the Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on that motion including the questions on amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c572.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;at least five Members elected to the House&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c572.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;as members of at least five different parties&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c578.4/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Instead, this is the time for parliament to declare it wants an extension of&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c578.4/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;so that, after two-and-a-half years of vexed negotiations, our political leaders can finally decide on what Brexit means.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c578.4/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Wrong to press @peoplesvote_uk amendment&#8230;when the issue is&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c578.4/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;wrong time and I fear the wrong reasons&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c593.5/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I will appeal to the EU27 to be open to a long extension if the UK finds it necessary to rethink its Brexit strategy and build consensus around it.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c599.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;no internationally lawful means of exiting the Protocol&#8217;s arrangements, save by agreement.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c607.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;were there to be an extension of the Article 50 period, it would (clearly) be inappropriate for the UK to hold EP&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c607.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;elections in May&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c611.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;This is your decision. The Government will implement what you decide.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c613.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c613.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c613.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;That a question being once made, and carried in the affirmative or negative, cannot be questioned again, but must stand as a judgement of the House.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c616.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If adopted by the Council and Parliament the decision could set back agbiotech in Europe by another 20 years. We are already a generation behind. Young scientists interested in agbiotech are likely to move to places where common sense and scientific evidence prevail&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c618.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to see what is necessary in relation to getting legislation through the House.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-03-12">12 March</phrase> 2019; Vol. 656, c. 224.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c624.3/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the noble Lord&#8217;s point that the EU Parliament could sit without the UK having had an election&#8230;is correct&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2019-02-27">27 February</phrase> 2019; Vol. 796, c. 292.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c628.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I think that it would be disastrous for us as Members of Parliament to go back to the people&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c628.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;instructs the Prime Minister to request an extension to the Article 50 period at the European Council in March 2019 sufficient for the purposes of legislating for and conducting a public vote in which the people of the United Kingdom may give their consent for either leaving the European Union on terms to be determined by Parliament or retaining the United Kingdom&#8217;s membership of the European Union.&#8221;.&#8212;(Dr Wollaston.)</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="c628.1/11" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="c628.1/12" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 85, Noes 334.</p>