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.
Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Denis MacShane
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 19 January 2010.
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Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill.
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