European Union (Amendment) Bill

There were a number of references in the Foreign Affairs Committee report, but the key one was this:"““We conclude that there is no material difference between the provisions on foreign affairs in the Constitutional Treaty which the Government made subject to approval in a referendum and those in the Lisbon Treaty on which a referendum is being denied””." The hon. Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith (Mark Lazarowicz) made a mistake in quoting Valéry Giscard d'Estaing on this issue, because Giscard also said of the differences between the documents, which are supposed to be so minor, that"““all the tools in the toolbox are still there””." So where is the referendum that we were promised? I will give the Liberal Democrats 30 seconds, because that is all that I have and all that they deserve. Their spokesman—[Interruption.]