3. Legislative Consent Motion on the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:25 pm on 21 January 2020.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 4:25, 21 January 2020

In her impassioned speech earlier on, Lynne Neagle talked about this Bill riding roughshod over democracy. But of course, it's not riding roughshod over democracy, it's a fulfilment of democracy. In the course of the professorial disquisition to which we've just listened, Carwyn Jones referred to the declaration of Arbroath as saying in Scottish law that sovereignty lies in the hands of the people. Well, the people decided in June 2016—17.4 million, the largest democratic vote in the whole of British history—to leave the EU. For the last three and a half years, the Labour Party, Plaid Cymru and the SNP have been trying every possible stratagem to avoid the consequences of that vote. I give way.