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European Union (Amendment) Bill

My Lords, the noble Lord is—I am sure, inadvertently—being slightly misleading, because the only UK and other member-state laws that can be struck down by the European Court of Justice are those which are proven to be at variance with the treaty to which this democracy and 26 others have set their hand. That has been the case in all the areas of competence of the European Court of Justice ever since it was established. Throughout the years when the noble Lord’s party was in government, there were divergences, but the court was never accused of unconstitutional presence, which is what he is accusing it of now.