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Intelligence and Security Committee Report on Russia ( 5 Nov 2019)

Dominic Grieve: Mr Speaker, may I once again warmly congratulate you on your election? The Intelligence and Security Committee operates on a completely non-partisan basis to try to put information into the public domain in the national interest. This report was completed in March of this year after many months of work. There then began a process of correction and redaction needed to get it published, and...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill (22 Oct 2019)

Dominic Grieve: ...will have to reconsider the issues raised by this withdrawal agreement and this Bill, and nothing we do can fetter the rights of this House to change completely the expression of intentions that we may decide to enact. What is clear is that this Bill reveals a number of things that can be described as truths. First, the intention of the Government, both in the treaty and in the drafting of...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill (22 Oct 2019)

Dominic Grieve: ...own free trade or whatever other routes we take, or if we crash out, the greater the difference we are going to emphasise, and the stronger and harder the border down the Irish sea will be. There may be some in Northern Ireland who welcome that, for perfectly valid reasons of their own, but for Unionism this is a very odd thing to do. In the Scottish context, it raises a perfectly clear...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill (22 Oct 2019)

Dominic Grieve: ...features to Northern Ireland, but I simply say that we, as a Unionist party, are creating an extra layer of difficulty for ourselves, which we will have to argue our way through. Of course, that may be an inherent consequence of Brexit; it is one reason why I regret so much the 2016 result, although I acknowledge that we cannot ignore it. However, I have suggested repeatedly—I will not...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill (22 Oct 2019)

Dominic Grieve: I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. It may have been inadvertent, but he did suggest that those advocating a people’s vote or second referendum did not want to put the option of leaving in it. That is, I have to say to him, entirely inaccurate. Perhaps he would like to consider this: he believes that this debate should be curtailed. One thing that I have learned is...

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill (22 Oct 2019)

Dominic Grieve: The Prime Minister must recognise that the arrangements that he has come to for Northern Ireland precisely do not deliver that for the people of Northern Ireland. Of course, opinion may be divided in Northern Ireland as to whether they want that or not, but the reality is that the vassalage clauses—as they have been described by the Leader of the House in the past—will continue to apply...

Prime Minister’s Statement: European Union (Withdrawal) Acts (19 Oct 2019)

Dominic Grieve: ..., with deep economic consequences if we cannot find a way through them, so I am afraid that I am not enthusiastic about the deal. I listened to my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), who has been very consistent in her view on Brexit, which is that for MPs to offer a referendum and then try to thwart or reject it by our own actions is a con trick. I do not disagree with...

Prime Minister's Update (25 Sep 2019)

Dominic Grieve: Whatever policy differences the Prime Minister may have with others, he may agree that he has an absolute duty to observe and uphold the rule of law. Whatever self-justifications he may have advanced today, he may also have to accept that in the matter of proroguing this House, he failed to do that. In those circumstances, would he now like to take the opportunity, rather than condemning the...

Legal Advice: Prorogation (25 Sep 2019)

Dominic Grieve: ...advice in private. Without that, he cannot do his work. I would also say that for him to get the law wrong in an area of difficulty is not necessarily something to be held to his discredit, but he may agree with me that one of the issues in this matter was one not just law but propriety, and the propriety went to the unconstitutional or constitutional nature of the act of Prorogation...

Prorogation (Disclosure of Communications) ( 9 Sep 2019)

Dominic Grieve: ...of Prorogation has been used for only two reasons. The first is to have the short interval, usually of no more than seven or eight days, between one Session and the next, so that a Queen’s Speech may take place. It has also been used at times to extend time for a general election in order to maintain a power by which this House could be recalled in an emergency before it is finally...

Prorogation (Disclosure of Communications) ( 9 Sep 2019)

Dominic Grieve: ...the time available for us to take them. As trust has progressively broken down, I am afraid I have become increasingly concerned that if one were simply to ask polite questions, the Government may not respond in the manner they should.

Prorogation (Disclosure of Communications) ( 9 Sep 2019)

Dominic Grieve: No, I will make a bit of progress. What I have attempted to do, distilling the information that has been made available, is to identify people where I think the information may be available. I repeat what I said: I make no imputation whatsoever against individuals. We could have tried to be much broader, but had we been much broader, it might have looked a bit like a fishing expedition...

Prorogation (Disclosure of Communications) ( 9 Sep 2019)

Dominic Grieve: If I may say to my right hon. Friend, last week, at Prime Minister’s questions, my right hon. Friend the Member for South West Hertfordshire (Mr Gauke) and I asked questions of the Prime Minister seeking to elicit an answer about his motive and state of knowledge, and I was rather struck by the fact that he avoided answering both questions completely. He made not a single attempt—my...

Prorogation (Disclosure of Communications) ( 9 Sep 2019)

Dominic Grieve: If I may say this to my right hon. Friend, I think not. I think that the terms of the motion cannot be abandoned unless the House wishes to abandon them. I cannot believe, on the basis of what he so graciously said to the House a moment ago, that the terms of the motion will be significantly dissimilar. In those circumstances, I very much hope that we will get the documentation relating to...

Prorogation (Disclosure of Communications) ( 9 Sep 2019)

Dominic Grieve: The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. If I may say so, had the House more time I would not have tabled that part of the motion. We could have waited, sensibly, to see that the House will be gone by midnight tonight—or shortly thereafter, depending on how long our proceedings continue—and we will not be back until 14 October. At that stage, because of the way in which the House...

Prorogation (Disclosure of Communications) ( 9 Sep 2019)

Dominic Grieve: I will give way to my right hon. and learned Friend in a moment. In addition, it is a question about what this House requests. I am perfectly aware that sometimes I may say that the Government may be acting abusively, so I am the first to understand that there is a capacity for this House to act abusively. However, what is being asked for, and ought to be respected by any self-respecting...

Prorogation (Disclosure of Communications) ( 9 Sep 2019)

Dominic Grieve: ...I have to disagree politely with my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney General. The issue is clearly defined: it relates to the Prorogation of Parliament. That is what it concerns. If I may say so, picking up on the earlier point that he made, I was just a little bit surprised. Of course he may argue that the Government cannot get this information, but No. 10 Downing Street is...

Prorogation (Disclosure of Communications) ( 9 Sep 2019)

Dominic Grieve: ...are entitled, correctly, to say, “I have been asked by the House of Commons in a motion under a Humble Address to Her Majesty the Queen to provide that information”, and they should do so, if I may say so, with a public spirit and, indeed, a degree of pride—that is what I would do—because that request has been made of them. Mr Speaker, I do not want to detain the House any further....

Prorogation (Disclosure of Communications) ( 9 Sep 2019)

Dominic Grieve: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I hope I may be briefer than that. The House is about to be prorogued for five weeks. Two weeks after we return is the anticipated date on which we are going to leave the European Union. There is much that is left undebated. In particular, we will not have an opportunity to ask necessary questions of the Government in relation to their own prepared documents under...

Points of Order ( 9 Sep 2019)

Dominic Grieve: Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. As another Buckinghamshire MP, I could not fail to rise to say words of thanks to you for what you have done. You may recall—it is perhaps worth recalling—that when you were first elected Speaker I think I was the only person in the Chamber who did not stand to applaud you. That was for two reasons. First, I rather disapprove of these displays...


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