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Peer reviewing Brexit Pt 2

25 November 2016 / Michael Zander KC
Issue: 7724 / Categories: Features , Public , Brexit , EU , Constitutional law
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What did the pro-Brexit peers suggest? Michael Zander QC looks back at the House of Lords’ post-referendum debate

  • Only ten of the 115 peers who spoke In the debate on July 5 and 6 welcomed the referendum result. These are extracts:

Lord Lawson of Blaby (formerly Nigel Lawson MP (Con)):

“[W]e must respect the EU doctrine that to remain a member of the so-called single market we would have to accept the freedom of European citizens to live and work here. That is something the British people have made clear is not on, so we must accept that we will be outside the single market. That is scarcely a disaster. The rest of the world is outside the so-called single market and trades happily and profitably with the European Union. You do not need a trade agreement to trade. Moreover, if we were to seek some special trading relationship with the EU, not only would we be adopting the position of a supplicant—which I do not like—but it would

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