Early Parliamentary General Election (No. 2)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:18 pm on 9 September 2019.

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Photo of Mark Francois Mark Francois Conservative, Rayleigh and Wickford 12:18, 9 September 2019

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I have not served in this House for as long as you, but I do recall that about a decade ago the Lisbon treaty was rammed through this House, without a referendum. That caused such ill feeling among the people of the United Kingdom that, in a way that no one could have predicted at the time, within seven years the people of this country voted to leave the EU. My point is that the people who rammed the treaty through at the time thought they were being very clever, but history proved them wrong. The people on the other side of the House who think they have been very clever tonight by resisting a general election cannot hide forever from the judgment of the people. They should ask not for whom the bell tolls, because eventually it tolls for them.