VoteClimate: UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union - 13th March 2019

UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union - 13th March 2019

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-03-13/debates/31D9EDE0-5E57-4491-81E7-77DD7C279DBE/UK%E2%80%99SWithdrawalFromTheEuropeanUnion

16:47 Stephen Gethins (SNP)

This is about damage limitation. The Brexiteers, including the Secretary of State for International Trade and the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, have blown it. I will not vote to make my constituents poorer and less well off because of their mistakes. Let me remind them that it is through the single market that we are wealthier, through its rules in areas such as workers’ rights and parental rights that we are fairer, through joint action on climate change that we are greener and through work with the European Medicines Agency, sadly departed, and air-quality agreements that we are healthier.

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17:39 Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat)

There is now a majority in the country for staying in the EU. I am on their side, along with my Liberal Democrat colleagues, the Scottish National party, Plaid Cymru, the Green party and the Independent Group. We are united in our view that our future is in the European Union. We stand for peace, collaboration and solving problems together, including the big issue of climate change. Although we represent at least 50% of the people of this country, our side of the argument has been completely sidelined in the past two and a half years. It is now time for Parliament seriously to consider the possibility of staying in the European Union.

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