EU: Fiscal Compact Treaty Debate

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EU: Fiscal Compact Treaty

Lord Howe of Aberavon Excerpts
Tuesday 7th February 2012

(12 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Sassoon Portrait Lord Sassoon
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My Lords, I think that my noble friends Lord Howell and Lord Strathclyde have given very good answers to that question in the past and there is nothing I need to add.

Lord Howe of Aberavon Portrait Lord Howe of Aberavon
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Will my noble friend take the opportunity of advising our right honourable friend the Prime Minister that in practical terms this is a setting in which the Prime Minister might be well judged to pay a little more respect to the advice of the Chancellor of the Exchequer than to that of the Foreign Secretary?