It is absolutely clear that in the vast majority of cases—I will happily put what is available on the public record into the public domain—the UK is effective in achieving a blocking minority where we seek to do so, and that will be protected even further under the new arrangements that will be put in place by 2017 and the double majority voting changes.
Treaty of Lisbon (No. 7)
Proceeding contribution from
Jim Murphy
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 26 February 2008.
It occurred during Debates on treaty on Treaty of Lisbon (No. 7).
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