The Government’s EU referendum lock: giving the key to parliament and voters? Open Europe Debate

[RH]

The Government’s EU referendum lock: giving the key to parliament and
voters?
Open Europe Debate

The Government’s EU referendum lock: giving the key to parliament and
voters?

Tuesday 16 November 12.30pm – 2pm

St. Stephen’s Club, 34 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AB

With:

David Lidington MP, Minister of State for Europe

Kate Hoey MP, Labour MP for Vauxhall

David Rennie, Political Editor and Bagehot columnist, The Economist

Mats Persson, Director, Open Europe

Chair: James Forsyth, Political Editor, The Spectator

David Lidington

Liddington said that the Bill would:

1. provide for referenda on any important future transfers of
sovereignty. He admitted that the question of deciding what
constituted an important transfer of sovereignty was problematic , but
pointed out that Parliament could insist on a referendum even if the
executive decided there would not be one.

2. require parliamentary scrutiny and an Act of Parliament for any
change to treaties however minor.

Read more at
http://livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/the-government%e2%80%99s-eu-referendum-lock-giving-the-key-to-parliament-and-voters/

[john bennett]

> Read more athttp://livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/the-government%e2%8...

Hopefully dave will give it cast iron status therby ensuring its
perpetual perserverance for all time.
After all if you can't trust a politician who can you trust?