The Foreign Secretary and I are good friends but we disagree on this matter. Will he confirm that under this much-vaunted reform deal that the Prime Minister has negotiated, which does not add up to a row of beans, if the UK were to introduce financial measures that we believed to be in the interests of the City of London but which the eurozone deemed to conflict with theirs, we would be obliged either to change our measures or to go to the European Court of Justice for arbitration—and we know that the Court always finds in favour of the acquis communautaire ?
Europe, Human Rights and Keeping People Safe at Home and Abroad
Proceeding contribution from
Gerald Howarth
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 24 May 2016.
It occurred during Queen's speech debate on Europe, Human Rights and Keeping People Safe at Home and Abroad.
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