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The UK’s Justice and Home Affairs Opt-outs

I think it is terribly important that we explain to the public what the quad is about, because it is Westminster-speak and I do not think the public understand that no policy is pursued by civil servants unless four individuals—the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury—sign off on them. Unless they do so, civil servants will not deal with those policies. That is what has stuffed us on the Conservative Benches.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
584 c523 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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