There is an important further point to be made. This big, important constitutional issue was devised by those who opposed our membership of the European Union in order to be able to vent all their feelings. It was going to resolve the question. Was it not the fact that the same people who lost in the referendum came back within a few years trying to get a different result?
European Union Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Tomlinson
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 9 May 2011.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on European Union Bill.
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