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European Council

I cannot speak for Blackburn as Secretary of State and my hon. Friend cannot speak for Leicester as its Member of Parliament. I think that that means he speaks for Blackburn as a Member of the House, and I am very grateful to him. I will do my best to establish the ERC there. On the Kok report, some member states have been more resistant than others to its very clear messages. I was going to say in response to the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague), who spoke about economic growth and relative economic decline, that, underneath the EU averages, there is a wide variation in economic performance. That is an indicator of the policies that will work, which are basically those where there is greater liberalisation as well as good underlying investment, and those that will not work, where there is a high degree of protectionism and a lack of liberalisation in the markets.