Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Brexit Minister – in the Senedd at 2:35 pm on 16 January 2019.

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Photo of Jeremy Miles Jeremy Miles Labour 2:35, 16 January 2019

I'll try again and outline our position. We have called on the Prime Minister to reach out across the House of Commons to seek to find a basis on which a better deal could be agreed. She has said yesterday that she intends to do that. She should do that, and include the opposition frontbenches in doing so. She should drop the red lines that she has insisted on—fruitlessly in many cases—for the last two years, and she should recognise that what is required is a fundamental rewrite of the political declaration, not a question of tinkering at the margins. If that fails, and if a general election is not achievable, then, in those circumstances, we have always said that a public vote is the best means of resolving that. But that requires us to give space for that discussion to take place, and we will hold the Prime Minister to her word on that being a meaningful discussion.