European Union (Amendment) Bill

It certainly did not lead to their withdrawal from the European Union—some people claim that voting on the treaty is the same as withdrawal. The hon. Lady might well ask what the votes achieved. The European leaders went away and tweaked and tinkered with the constitution and brought it back under a different name, which brings me to a point that I wanted to make. The treaty was designed to seem different. In the words of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, who wrote the original document:"““All the earlier proposals will be in the new text , but will be hidden and disguised in some way.””"