European Union Bill

If the hon. Gentleman is planning to table an amendment on an in-out referendum, I will consider it. That is a matter for the House to debate, but I am concerned that he is trying to tempt me to stray from the subject matter of this group of amendments, which is sovereignty. I am concerned about paragraph 106 of the explanatory notes, which states that clause 18 places on a statutory footing"““the common law principle that EU law takes effect in the UK through the will of Parliament.””" As a lawyer, I know that that is not a common law principle, as I am sure most lawyers do. It is a constitutional principle. No one case decided that Parliament was sovereign. It is sovereign, and it cannot resile from that sovereignty.