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Interview with Baroness Ruth Deech: Brexit and the House of Lords Amendments, 2018-06-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1/34

Scope and Contents

Baroness Deech supported Brexit, and tells Sones why she believes the House of Lords has every right to amend the legislation of the Commons and that the so called 'ping pong' process is good for democracy. During this week, the House of Commons considered fifteen Lord's Amendments to the Brexit Bill, and overturned them all, but this did inflict considerable damage to both the Conservative and Labour parties whose leaders, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn were unable to get their front benches to vote with their party line. Deech described the vote, and the Scottish National Party walking out of PMQs as 'chaotic'. Deech states that her instinct is that if there were to be another referendum vote it would still be 52 to 48, believing that we would vote the same way again.

Dates

  • Creation: 2018-06-15

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Extent

1 item(s) : 16 minutes 57 seconds (Audio)

Language of Materials

English

Finding aid date

2020-04-06 11:08:26+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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