Here are the Lib Dem contributions from our MPs in yesterday’s “Super Saturday” debates.
First up was Jo, basically telling the Prime Minister that he was too feart to put his deal to the people:
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. Is not 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?
Which he didn’t answer, of course.
Then Luciana tackled him on the fact that the Government hadn’t even provided back of a cigarette packet figures for how the deal would impact on the economy:
The Prime Minister’s Brexit Secretary was on television this morning. He confirmed that no economic analysis of the deal has been done. I ask the House to let that sink in: no economic analysis of the deal, on which we are all expected to vote today, has been done. How does the Prime Minister anticipate that Members on all sides the House can, in good faith, be expected to vote on a deal today that will impact on our country for decades to come?
Answer came there none. And the same when Sarah Wollaston had a go later:
Evidence matters, Prime Minister. How can he possibly assure our constituents that this is a good deal if he has not carried out an economic impact assessment of what it will cost them? If he has carried that out, why on earth are we not able to see it as we debate this today?
Tom Brake challenged him to rule out leaving at the end of the transition period without a deal:
Would the Prime Minister agree to pass an Act making it unlawful for us to leave at the end of the transition phase without a deal?
And he refused to do so. Quelle surprise. But look at what he said, while thanking ministers and civil servants for procuring the deal:
I respectfully say to the right hon. Gentleman that I do not think their position has been made easier by measures passed in the name of the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn). Not a good idea!
A bit of a contradiction since he’s been hailing this brilliant deal he brought back with the Benn Act in place.