Prime Minister’s Point of Order statement to the House:
On a point of order Mr Speaker,
I think it should be a matter of profound regret to every member
of this House that once again we have been unable to support
leaving the European Union in an orderly fashion.
The implications of the House’s decision are grave.
The legal default now is that the United Kingdom is due to leave
the European Union on 12 April.
In just 14 days’ time.
This is not enough time to agree, legislate for and ratify a
deal, and yet the House has been clear it will not permit leaving
without a deal.
And so we will have to agree an alternative way forward.
The European Union has been clear that any further extension will
need to have a clear purpose and will need to be agreed
unanimously by the heads of the other 27 Member States ahead of
12 April.
It is also almost certain to involve the UK being required to
hold European Parliamentary elections.
On Monday, this House will continue the process to see if there
is a stable majority for a particular alternative version of our
future relationship with the EU.
Of course, all of the options will require the Withdrawal
Agreement.
Mr Speaker,
I fear we are reaching the limits of this process in this House.
This House has rejected no deal. It has rejected no Brexit. On
Wednesday it rejected all the variations of the deal on the
table.
And today it has rejected approving the Withdrawal Agreement
alone and continuing a process on the future.
This Government will continue to press the case for the orderly
Brexit that the result of the referendum demands.
MP, Leader of the , speaking in the House of
Commons after the third defeat of ’s Brexit deal, said:
“On a point of order, Mr Speaker.
“This is now the third time that the Prime Minister’s deal has
been rejected.
“When it was defeated the first time the Prime Minister, said:
‘It is clear that this House does not support the deal.’
“Does she now finally accept that the House does not support the
deal? Because she seemed to indicate just now that she’s going to
return to this issue again.
“On Monday this House has the chance, and I say to all members,
the responsibility to find a majority for a better deal for all
the people of this country.
“The House has been clear, this deal now has to change. There has
to be an alternative found. And if the Prime Minister can’t
accept that then she must go, not at an indeterminate date in the
future but now.
“So that we can decide the future of this country through a
General Election.”
