EU: UK Membership
Debate between Viscount Younger of Leckie and Lord Hannay of Chiswick
Viscount Younger of Leckie
The answer to the noble Lord’s question is that we are fully focused on staying within the EU. We do not see a two-tier Europe coming forward.
Lord Hannay of Chiswick
Can the Minister clarify another simple point? How does the announcement of a referendum in four years’ time, the result of which cannot possibly be predicted, remove uncertainty?
Viscount Younger of Leckie
The Prime Minister emphasised in another place that now was not the right time to hold a referendum, and that it would be right to hold a referendum after the next election—and after, we hope, the current EU crisis has abated.