Amid the two-day House of Commons debate over the Government's Brexit Bill, one MP amazingly decided to bring in a bit of popular culture to the proceedings.

Scottish National Party MP Hannah Bardell took a cue from Trainspotting to lambast the UK's decision to leave the EU yesterday (February 1) by referring to Renton's iconic Choose Life speech from the 1996 movie.

Vocalising her fears over leaving the EU, Hannah, who represents Livingston, said: "Choose Brexit. Choose making up numbers from thin air about the NHS and plastering them on the side of buses.

"Choose racist and xenophobic sentiments seeping out from some corners of the Leave campaign. Choose hate crime rising by over 40% – and LGBT hate crime by 150% – in England and Wales following the Brexit vote.

"Choose taking the people of our nations to the polls on one of the most important issues of a generation with nothing written down and no plan."

She rounded off by adding: "Choose the great Brexit power grab, taking back control of straight bananas. Choose returning to the Thatcher era of poverty and austerity. Choose the UK turning its back on Europe. These, Mr Speaker, are not the choices the Scottish people made."

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The MPs were debating the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, which passed its second reading in the House of Commons last night.

MPs will vote again next week – expected to be their final vote before the bill goes to the House of Lords.

Renton's (Ewan McGregor) speech at the start and end of Trainspotting has become the stuff of movie legend, and was updated in the new sequel T2.

The movie's stars also recreated the original movie's poster on The Graham Norton Show, complete with wigs and all.

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