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European Union (Amendment) Bill

I said that I did not want to bring that in, my Lords, but I was provoked. We appear to be dealing with a new class of people. The best phrase I can think of to describe them is an ““international conference-ariat””. They go to conferences all over the world at our expense, very comfortably, to places like Bali to talk about climate change; not that that makes any difference, or that anything we do will make any difference. The line of this new conference-arait is that we increase our sovereignty by surrendering it. For the United Kingdom’s voice to be heard in this globalising world, they say, we must give up our right to govern ourselves and abandon our special relationship with the United States of America for the delights of the French-inspired European army. That is nonsense.