No. I am afraid that I am among those who regard sovereignty as being rather like virginity; you either have it or you do not. Certainly, in all those parts of the treaty that are now subject to qualified majority voting, where we have some 9 per cent of the votes, we have in effect given up power. I really do not think that there is any doubt about that.
European Union Bill
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Lord Pearson of Rannoch
(UK Independence Party)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 5 April 2011.
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