I am very grateful indeed to the noble Lord. It is most courteous and gallant of him to allow me to make a brief comment. Would he not agree that our great leader who led us in that battle and standalone fight, Winston Churchill, was in fact a supporter of the Treaty of Brussels, which in 1947 would have greatly enlarged our integration into what has now become the European Union with far wider and deeper social clauses, for example, than the Treaty of Rome created?
European Union Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 17 May 2011.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on European Union Bill.
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