CONSERVATIVE
New Forest East

FOREIGN AFFAIRS – EUROPEAN UNION BILL - 01 February 2011

FOREIGN AFFAIRS – EUROPEAN UNION BILL - 01 February 2011

Dr Julian Lewis: I am grateful for the slightly delayed acceptance [by Keith Vaz] of my intervention. I simply wanted to say that I thought the right hon. Gentleman's speech, apart from being massively entertaining, was absolutely right about the Liberal Democrat position. One thing was missing from the gobbledegook that we heard by way of justification. There was only one reason why the Liberal Democrats were going for an in/out referendum: it was to try to disguise and camouflage the fact that they were reneging on their promise for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.