The Conservatives criticised us when we were in office for taking the people further into Europe, but let us remind them when they complain about the free movement of labour that they signed up to the single market and the British people never got a referendum then; they signed up to Maastricht and the British people never got a referendum then; and they implied that we would have taken them into the single currency, but we had the five economic tests.
European Union Referendum Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Jim Cunningham
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 9 June 2015.
It occurred during Debate on bills on European Union Referendum Bill.
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