Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

As I said at the beginning of my remarks, we believe that there should be a referendum on the future of Britain's membership. There have been so many treaties over the past 20 years, as the right hon. Member for Leicester, East reminded us, and the British people have not had a referendum on any of them. It is therefore time to ask people the real question—the one that people say they want—about whether Britain should be a member of the European Union. That is the question people want to be asked, not a question about detailed aspects of a treaty.