EU: Law-making Process Debate
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Viscount Waverley
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(5 years, 4 months ago)
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Viscount Waverley (CB)
My Lords, is the practical reality not that this Question comes a little late in the day—in fact, 40 years too late—and that if we had had a better understanding of all these issues at the start we would not be in the pickle we are in now?
Lord Callanan
There may be some truth in that, but if I had any criticisms of the EU system—and I have a lot of them—I might suggest that the unnecessary complexity would be one of the reasons why people voted to leave.