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EU Referendum Rules

Proceeding contribution from John Penrose (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 5 September 2016. It occurred during e-petition debate on EU Referendum Rules.

I will respond merely by saying that I hope that the period of banging on about Europe will be much shorter than it would be if we had more referendums about it in the future. I had thought that the right hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy) wanted to intervene—[Interruption.] Clearly there were two minds with but a single thought.

The danger of requiring a super-majority is that it would be seen as a coded attempt by disappointed pro-Europeans to rerun the original referendum because they did not like the result. I supported the remain campaign, but even I think that a rerun would be a huge mistake. Whichever side we were on at the time, I hope that all of us here are democrats first, last and always.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
614 c11WH 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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