Leaving the European Union

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:50 pm on 26 February 2019.

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Photo of Jess Phillips Jess Phillips Labour, Birmingham, Yardley 12:50, 26 February 2019

I feel so enraged this week by the complete and utter lack of bravery to do the right thing for our country. Perhaps it is because I have spent my week in my constituency trying to put out the burning injustices that the Prime Minister’s Government have started where I live. I will not sit one more day and listen to the Prime Minister crow about employment going up, while where I live employment is falling and hunger is rising. I currently have one midwife—one!—for the entirety of my constituency. There are people in my constituency who are living in hotels, and who have to move out because Crufts is coming to Birmingham.

Will the Prime Minister do a brave thing and do, once, what is best for the country, not what is best for any of us? Will she be brave, and will she at least answer the question asked by my hon. Friend Owen Smith? Will she at least vote against no deal herself?