2019 March 12

Following the vote on Tuesday 12 March 2019, I responded to an emergency business statement from the Leader of the House outlining the Government’s next steps:

The Government’s Withdrawal Agreement was agreed with the European Union on 25 November 2018. It was HM Opposition that first called for a ‘meaningful vote’, and after two years of negotiations, the Government scheduled the ‘meaningful vote’ to be on 11 December 2018. However, the Government fearing that it would lose then withdrew the vote.

On Monday 11 March I attended ‘Tackling Plastic Pollution’, co-hosted by the APPG on the Prevention of Plastic Waste, Plastic Oceans UK and the Coalition for Global Prosperity, about the damage that single-use plastic products are doing to Earth’s ecosystems.