European Union (Withdrawal) Act

Part of Business of the House (Today) – in the House of Commons at 5:04 pm on 12 March 2019.

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Photo of Justine Greening Justine Greening Conservative, Putney 5:04, 12 March 2019

My hon. Friend is making a very powerful point. It is easy to forget that when the Prime Minister set out in her Lancaster House speech the many tests and criteria that she felt we needed for a successful Brexit, one of them was to have a future partnership agreed over the course of the two-year article 50 period. As he will know, that was the first time that she mentioned the phrase “No deal is better than a bad deal”, but no deal in that context reflected the future partnership agreement, not just the withdrawal agreement.