Given that we are all agreed that any change would be subject to an Act of Parliament, what is to stop Parliament as a whole subjecting the change to such scrutiny and even possibly suggesting an amendment on a referendum as the Act went through? I am sure there would be many volunteers on the Government Benches to draft the amendment.
European Union Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Martin Horwood
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 24 January 2011.
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and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on European Union Bill.
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