Does my right hon. Friend agree that the central point of the Bill is that if a future Government came along and attempted to cheat the British people out of a referendum, as the previous Government did—as the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) well knows—they would not be able to do it without explicitly repealing and amending the Act? They could not hide behind word games and semantics.
European Union Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Charlie Elphicke
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 7 December 2010.
It occurred during Debate on bills on European Union Bill.
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