The Bill ensures that the implementation period must end on 31 December next year, with no possibility of an extension, and it paves the way for a new agreement on our future relationship with our European neighbours, based on an ambitious free trade agreement. The sorry story of the last three and a half years will be at an end and we will be able to move forward together. It ensures that we depart from the EU on 31 January, and at that point Brexit will be done-it will be over. This Bill, unlike Opposition Members, learns the emphatic lesson of the last Parliament and rejects any further delay.
Members on both sides of the House will recall, only to be pecked out again, with the cycle repeated forever. There would be nothing more dangerous than extending the implementation period, in a torture that, as we all remember, came to resemble Lucy snatching away Charlie Brown’s football or Prometheus chained to the Tartarian crag, his liver pecked out by an eagle and then growing back, as hon. I think I am coming to the point that hon. Link to this speech In context Individually.The whole purpose of our withdrawal agreement is to set this in motion and avoid any further delay. Now is the time to act together as one reinvigorated nation, one United Kingdom, filled with renewed confidence in our national destiny and determined, at last, to take advantage of the opportunities that now lie before us. In fact, the very words seem tired to me as I speak them-as defunct as “big-enders” and “little-enders” or as “Montagues” and “Capulets” at the end of the play. Because this Bill, and this juncture in our national story, must not be seen as a victory for one party over another or one faction over another this is the time when we move on and discard the old labels of “leave” and “remain”. Now is the moment, as we leave the European Union, to reunite our country, and allow the warmth and natural affection we all share for our European neighbours to find renewed expression in one great new national project of building a deep, special and democratically accountable partnership with those nations we are proud to call our closest friends. I also beg that we come together, as a new Parliament, to break the deadlock and, finally, to get Brexit done. I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
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