European Union (Amendment) Bill

My Lords, I do not belong to a political party which once campaigned to withdraw from the European Union, but the noble Lord does. I will take no lessons from the noble Lord about what others in my political party, the Conservative Party, do. I have always thought of myself as a Christian democrat, a national liberal. My predecessor, Lord Selwyn-Lloyd, stood as a national liberal and Conservative. I represent that part of the Liberal Party which joined the Conservative Party and I strongly believe in Europe. It is what brought me into politics. I will not take any lessons from him on how I have to rein in members of my own party when he allowed his party to campaign to withdraw. We have had a good debate—