All 1 Debates between Baroness Falkner of Margravine and Lord Grocott

Mon 2nd Jul 2012

EU Council

Debate between Baroness Falkner of Margravine and Lord Grocott
Monday 2nd July 2012

(12 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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My Lords, I have listened very carefully to the Leader’s explanation of the Prime Minister’s position on a referendum. I think that I am an average member of the public and I still have not got the faintest idea what his position on a referendum is. Does he seek a fundamental renegotiation of the terms and conditions of our membership of the European Union, which he would then like to put to the people in a referendum? In which case, I ask the Leader what shred of evidence his leader has from his prime ministership of two years’ standing that any other member of the European Union is prepared to agree to a fundamental renegotiation of Britain’s position within the European Union. Should he fail to get a fundamental renegotiation, will he then put that failure to the British public in a referendum? Presumably, his recommendation then would be that we should say no, and come out.