How did spreading lies about the EU help, Laura?
And literally nobody was "ignoring the referendum". Ignoring it would mean not even turning up to the debates in parliament.

Pathetic political language from a coward who turned on the EU and started spreading lies to save her own seat.
And it was exactly cowards like Laura that meant that keeping the government WA from passing before the election was looking difficult.
It's nice of the political class to rewrite history and claim that "everybody was pushing for Remain and that's why we ended up outside of the Single Market", but some of us don't have short memories.
A lot of the grass roots Remain campaign remember a time when we couldn't get a politician to acknowledge us, or even say the word 'Remain'.
So to hear an MP suggesting MPs 'ignored the referendum' as if a huge section of the public were not politically ostracised is laughable.
Don't worry, the cowards got legally binding worthless protections though.

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