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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

It is a gerund. Keep your hair on. The point that Swiss colleagues made was that, more and more, their laws have to conform with the EU's. [Interruption.] Okay, I have finished the Swiss example and I shall return to the point that the hon. Member for Castle Point (Bob Spink) put to me. I am here to defend parliamentary supremacy, sovereignty and democracy. I do not like surrendering to plebiscites. As Margaret Thatcher said, they are a device invented by demagogues and applied by dictators.

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Reference

504 c241 

Session

2009-10

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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