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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at on 11 March 2019.

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Photo of Angela Rayner Angela Rayner Shadow Secretary of State for Education

It is great to see the pupils in the Gallery who have been listening throughout Question Time.

In the Government’s vast backlog of Brexit legislation, they recently slipped out regulations that allow them to withdraw the UK from the European University Institute. Legal experts say that that is completely unnecessary and academics warn that it will be deeply damaging. Will the Secretary of State publish the legal advice and allow a debate on the Floor of the House—or, better still, withdraw the proposal and think again?