Parliamentary Scrutiny of Leaving the EU

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:57 pm on 12 October 2016.

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Photo of Keir Starmer Keir Starmer Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union 12:57, 12 October 2016

I will answer the first intervention, please.

We are not in government and our manifesto did not have a referendum without a plan for exit. We need to be clear at the beginning of this exercise where responsibility for the position in which we find ourselves lies. It lies with a previous Prime Minister and a Government who had no plan for a no vote. That is why we are here today.