Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that Baroness Thatcher fought for qualified majority voting precisely because she knew that none of those matters could be carried through unless we all moved together? Is it not also true that qualified majority voting gives greater power to individual nations than the veto, because everyone else knows that they could be steamrollered if they do not join a common enterprise together?
Treaty of Lisbon (No. 4)
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Deben
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 6 February 2008.
It occurred during Debates on treaty on Treaty of Lisbon (No. 4).
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