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Business of the House

The House has regular debates on all aspects of European issues and I anticipate that, before the European summit, as is traditional in the House, there will be an opportunity for Members to debate all the issues that the hon. Gentleman raised. I understand that he is a strong supporter of the hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron), who is doubtless thinking how he might modernise his Government’s—his potential Government’s—policy on European matters. It was interesting to listen to such a rant of anti-European invective, as it suggests that the hon. Member for Witney still has a good deal of ground to make up, not least because the Conservative group in the European Parliament has left its natural allies in the Christian Democratic group. I therefore suspect that, under him, the Conservative party would be utterly isolated on those matters.