The prime minister’s deal removes
protections on workers’ rights.
It puts a border down the Irish sea
and, according to the government’s own analysis,
will damage our economy on a scale
greater than the financial crash.
Today, hundreds of thousands of people
will be outside demanding a final say
in a people’s vote.
Isn't it the truth that the reason
why the prime minister refuses their calls
is that he knows that, if given the option,
the people will reject his bad deal
and choose to remain in the European Union?
– Hear hear.
– Prime minister.
– Well, Mr Speaker, I am afraid that
the right honourable Lady
is not correct in what she says.
The new deal does absolutely nothing
to remove protections from workers
or from the environment.
On the contrary, it gives us the opportunity
to strengthen such protections.
She asked for the people to have
a final say at the ballot box,
yet she has been preventing
a general election, Mr Speaker.
Instead of campaigning for a general election,
she's been in Brussels
asking the EU not to give this country
a new and better deal.
I think that the mere fact that we have
a great deal before us today
is a tribute to the signal lack of influence
of the Liberal Democrats in Brussels.
