I shall not argue about the vox populi after the referendum—I might have been one of the voxes and I might have been quite populi. We keep hearing about the distrust of politicians and I wonder whether that distrust is greater when a referendum does not achieve 40 per cent compared with when Members of Parliament pledge not to put up student fees and then do the opposite.
European Union Bill
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Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 5 April 2011.
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