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Future EU Finances and Own Resources

I am most grateful. I too warmly welcome my right hon. Friend back to the Foreign Office as Minister for Europe. I know that he will perform his task with great distinction, as he did when he last held the post. Does my right hon. Friend not agree that, although we have great affection for my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, North (Kelvin Hopkins) when he speaks on European issues, he misses the point about the deal? Britain has been the champion of enlargement. Indeed, when my right hon. Friend last held his current post he pushed forward the enlargement agenda. It is only right that we agreed a deal to help the new countries that have joined the European Union.