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Future EU Finances and Own Resources

Like my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, North (Kelvin Hopkins), I do not believe that Britain should withdraw from the European Union. I accept the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) that we ought to be campaigning for what we want to see, but does he not accept that the way in which Britain conceded, virtually entirely, on the common agricultural policy was a complete abandonment of our responsibility? He almost suggests that we alone were in favour of enlargement and the only way in which we could get anyone else in continental Europe to accept enlargement was to stuff their mouths with gold. Surely that is not the case. Many others were in favour of enlargement, and we capitulated far too easily.