Lord Pearson of Rannoch
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EU: UK Membership
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Lord Wallace of Saltaire
My Lords, I read the stories in the Sunday newspapers the other week. I have no idea how authentic they were.
Lord Pearson of Rannoch
My Lords, is the answer not that the Government cannot make the case for our membership of the EU because there is now an overwhelming case for us to leave it and thus create a great many jobs by relieving us of its suffocating clutches? Beyond that, is it not time for the EU itself to be wound up, with a similar benefit for the democracies of Europe? What is now the point of any of it? I hope that the noble Lord will not give me the nonsense about peace.