“Many people, many members of the public want us to get on with Brexit and actually ensure that we are delivering for them on the domestic agenda.” “Can my right honorable friend think of anything more unhelpful, irrelevant and irresponsible than for the Conservative Party to embark on weeks of a Conservative leadership election?” “Can I say, too — can I say too, can I say my right honorable, my right honorable and learned friend has raised an important issue. And I think it is, it is the impact that those weeks of that campaign would have on the decision that the House has to take and the decision that we have to take as a country in relation to leaving the European Union, because there is no doubt that would go beyond the legislative date of the 21st of January. And it would mean that the new leader, were a new leader to come in, that one of the first things they would have to do would be to either extend Article 50 or rescind Article 50 and that would mean either delaying or stopping Brexit.” “Can she now confirm that we will have the concluding days of debates and votes within the next seven days before the House rises for the Christmas recess?” “I say to the right honorable gentleman, I had discussions with a number of people yesterday. And I have made some progress, but there is further — [shouting] But of course, there is an E.U. Council meeting. There are further discussions to be held. He asks about the meaningful vote, the meaningful vote has been deferred and the date of that vote will be announced in the normal way. The business motion will be agreed and discussed in the usual way. Well if he says — well I‘ll tell members on the other side, when we’ve had a meaningful vote. We had it in the referendum on 2016.”