Parliamentary Scrutiny of Leaving the EU

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:35 pm on 12 October 2016.

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Photo of Kate Hoey Kate Hoey Labour, Vauxhall 1:35, 12 October 2016

The Secretary of State will know that, throughout the country, when this issue was being discussed, the British public knew that membership of the single market meant free movement of labour. That was one of the basic principles behind why people, in their millions, voted to leave. Is it not time that we straightforwardly said that we want the fullest possible access to the single market, but that we cannot, if we are going to stop free movement, which is what the people of this country wanted, be members of the single market?