Does the Home Secretary understand that either this House is sovereign in criminal justice or the European Union is, and that if we opt into this measure, the European Union becomes sovereign? She has rightly pointed out lots of defects with the arrest warrant, but once we have given away our sovereignty we have no absolute right to stop or change things in the way that we can if we keep the authority here.
The UK’s Justice and Home Affairs Opt-outs
Proceeding contribution from
John Redwood
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 10 July 2014.
It occurred during Debate on The UK’s Justice and Home Affairs Opt-outs.
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