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Government: Draft Legislative Programme

My Lords, if the House will forgive me, I did not wish to interrupt my noble friend’s magnificent response to today’s debate, but will he and the Government reflect on one matter in regard to the new European treaty? The meaning and the scope of that treaty will, I hope the Government understand, depend not on this Government; not even on the Spanish or Luxembourg Governments’ belief in what percentage of a constitution it is; it will depend on the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, whose judgment on where it extends will be binding in law on us. There are judgments in the pipeline that will raise very important issues. I am sure the Government have this in mind.