My Work in Parliament - Pat McFadden MP Wolverhampton South East

[5th Allotted Day]

European Union (Withdrawal) Act

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

The Minister is making an important point, because the Good Friday agreement says that people in Northern Ireland can choose to be British, Irish or both, and that “both” is hugely...

[5th Allotted Day]

European Union (Withdrawal) Act

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

While my hon. Friend is on the point of communities that feel left out of the national story, does he agree that nobody in the European Union is preventing us from building more houses,...

[5th Allotted Day]

European Union (Withdrawal) Act

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

It is more than a potential—it is a racing certainty. It is an illusion to think that this argument is finished on 30 March if we agree this withdrawal agreement—that is simply not...

[5th Allotted Day]

European Union (Withdrawal) Act

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it is significant that a number of other countries would agree with us on that, even in the two years since the vote took place. As I said, this is a...

[5th Allotted Day]

European Union (Withdrawal) Act

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Aberdeen South (Ross Thomson) and my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton North East (Sir David Crausby). After a month’s delay, we have to...

Points of Order

EU Withdrawal Agreement: Legal Changes

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I am grateful to you for the statement that you have just made. I was at Abingdon Green earlier this afternoon and witnessed what happened. A...

EU Withdrawal Agreement: Legal Changes

Commons debates

It is a new year, but it does feel like a groundhog statement, with exactly the same strategy as before: trying to force Parliament to choose between a bad deal for the UK and no deal at all,...

Future Immigration

Commons debates

Immigration has benefited the UK, and the people who have come here, whether from Europe or from the rest of the world, have overwhelmingly come to work hard and make a positive contribution to...

European Council

Commons debates

We now know what the plan is. Having failed to win support for the deal in Parliament and having failed to get any meaningful change to it at the EU Council last week, the Prime Minister now...

Exiting the European Union: Meaningful Vote

Commons debates

The Minister today, and the Prime Minister yesterday, talked about the importance of honesty in the debate. I agree, but my contention is that a lack of honesty and candour about the reality of...

Exiting the European Union: Meaningful Vote

Commons debates

European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018: Statutory Obligations on Ministers

Commons debates

There are circumstances in which, under section 13 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, the Government are required to make a statement on how to proceed by 21 January. Those are if the...

Points of Order

Commons debates

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Given the events of today, I wonder whether you could guide the House on if and when, in the absence of the vote that was scheduled for tomorrow night, the...

EU Exit: Article 50

Commons debates

Were the Government to act on today’s legal judgment, it would mean no backstop, no hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and no need for any border down the...

Exiting the European Union

Commons debates

The Prime Minister has come to the House to talk to us about honesty on the day when she is trying to pull a vote which she said would not be pulled in order to try to change a deal which she...

[2nd Allotted Day]

Immigration (Time Limit on Detention)

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

The right hon. Lady is absolutely right about rule-taking and sovereignty. Does she agree that the reason we have got into this position is that the whole Brexit debate has defined sovereignty as...

Offence of threatening with an offensive weapon etc in a private place

Offensive Weapons Bill

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

I strongly agree with the points my hon. Friend is making. Does she agree with me that if the Government get the police pensions wrong, the issue she has just highlighted will become even worse,...

Offence of threatening with an offensive weapon etc in a private place

Offensive Weapons Bill

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

I should like to thank the Minister for the open, listening approach that she has taken in response to representations from myself, my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Preet...

Jagtar Singh Johal

Petition - a National Carers Strategy for Unpaid Carers

Pat McFadden made a speech in the House of Commons

The point that the hon. Gentleman is making is the critical one. The legitimate role for him as the constituency MP and for others in the Chamber who represent large Sikh communities throughout...

Progress on EU Negotiations

Commons debates

In sector after sector, these proposals represent a downgrading of UK power and influence compared with what we have now. That is one side of the equation here, but I want to ask the Prime...