European Union (Accessions) Bill

Indeed. The Prime Minister’s speech to the European Parliament and his and the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s speeches on the reform of the EU—all of which will have an impact on Bulgaria and Romania, let alone the other countries in eastern and central Europe and elsewhere—combine to illustrate the fact that, struggling against the elite of Europe, there are apparently glimmerings of Euroscepticism in the future Prime Minister, by which I mean, in immediate terms, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Everyone knows that that change will happen in the next 18 months, and anyone who has read the books of people such as Robert Peston and others who provide well-sourced, intelligent analyses of what is going on know what elements are involved. I refer, for example, to the Treasury pamphlet that the Chancellor of Exchequer produced the other day in which he clearly repudiated even the social model for Europe. I should be interested to know whether or not the Minister was party to that pamphlet, which amounted to a repudiation of the existing European economic model. The Chancellor called for more global markets and more competitiveness. He illustrated his concern that the Lisbon agenda was not functioning properly.