As always, I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, but has he not just made the case for why the Bill is so important? In the example that he has given, it would be possible for the French Government to say to other European Governments, ““This is in the interests of my country, and I will therefore not be able to get it through.”” Is that not the great merit of the Bill, and is it not the sort of Bill that we would never have seen from the Government of whom he was a member?
European Union Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Stephen Phillips
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 26 January 2011.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on European Union Bill.
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