European Union (Amendment) Bill

I said that there were aspects of the other debate that I did not want to replicate in this one, but that does not mean that I thought it was anodyne, and I will tell the Minister why. The explanatory memorandum, which gives the Government’s explanation of all this, says:"““Article 1(2)(b) of the Treaty of Lisbon inserts in Article 1 of the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) a new third paragraph as follows:""‘The [European] Union shall be founded on the present Treaty and on the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union…Those two Treaties shall have the same legal value. The Union shall replace and succeed the European Community.’””" To the extent that once that point is—