European Affairs

The sovereignty Act that we are proposing also deals with the passerelle question. I do not want to put my hon. Friend directly on the spot, because this is a matter for the leader of our party as well as for the party as a whole, but does he not tend to agree with me—I urge him to agree with me very much—that such a sovereignty Bill would have to be totally comprehensive to ensure that we reaffirmed the sovereignty of this Parliament? We would need to guarantee that, as with other supremacy of Parliament amendments, put forward by me—amendments that have already been endorsed by our leadership—any future changes that we may wish to make in relation to European legislation would be carried through.