Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

I even know all the capitals, which is more than many Europe Ministers past and present can deliver. No more than about 10 per cent. of the laws that we decide in this House emanate from the EU: the Library has researched this time and again. That puts the whole thing in some perspective. The amendment is an invitation to make good the lost honour of the Leader of the Opposition, who said beyond peradventure to his party that there would be a referendum on the Lisbon treaty—he offered it a cast-iron pledge, or girdle, and an ultimate guarantee—and then reneged on it. That was a jolly good thing, because no adult party that contemplates power in this country can be going down the road of wanting to unravel the major treaties that bind us together in the European Union.