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European Union (Amendment) Bill

My hon. Friend says that that is rubbish, and he is absolutely right. The hon. Member for Rutland and Melton continued:"““If there is an interruption in the supplies from the Gulf, the Commission can override our contracts. It can cut off our supplies from Milford Haven and send them to Ingolstadt, or divert our liquefied natural gas from the Isle of Grain to Novo Mesto.””—[Official Report, 30 January 2008; Vol. 471, c. 347.]" It is embarrassing that a serious political party that aspires to government should come up with such claptrap. As for the issue of qualified majority voting, the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks has talked about our national veto being ““abolished in sixty areas””, but he glosses over the fact that 16 of the 51 changes do not apply to the UK or apply only if we agree, while 15 are purely procedural. Furthermore, 20 changes will speed up or unblock decision making in areas not just where we want progress, but where the Conservative party says that it wants progress too.