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Debate on Tuesday, 9 December 2008, in the House of Commons, led by David Miliband. The answering member was Lord Hague of Richmond.

European Affairs

Debate on a motion That this House has considered the matter of European affairs.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
485 c410-508 
Session
2008-09
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
David Leslie Taylor | 485 c502 (Link to this contribution) Was the hon. Gentleman as disappointed as I was by the robust terms that the Foreign Secretary used ...
Mark Francois | 485 c502 (Link to this contribution) I will do so briefly, as I have little time left.
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Speaker | 485 c503 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Member must refer to the right hon. Gentleman as the Prime Minister.
Mark Francois | 485 c502-3 (Link to this contribution) Although I am tight for time, I am delighted that I took that very pertinent intervention. I shall n...
Caroline Flint | 485 c503-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the House for a lively and interesting debate in which we heard 10 speeches from Back Benche...
Mark Francois | 485 c503 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Speaker, it would be utterly undemocratic of the Prime Minister to say that the Irish people sho...
Michael Connarty | 485 c497 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, I do not have time to take interventions. I do apologise, but that is what happens when ...
Michael Connarty | 485 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give way given that I have been called to speak with 15 minutes to go after a seri...
Mark Francois | 485 c499-502 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to sum up this often lively debate for Her Majesty's Opposition. It has touched on ...
Michael Connarty | 485 c497-9 (Link to this contribution) There are clearly different opinions on the strategy, and whether the degree of it is correct, but n...
Speaker | 485 c497 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that it would be sensible for the hon. Gentleman to continue with his speech.
Michael Connarty | 485 c497 (Link to this contribution) I have been in and out of this Chamber—
David Leslie Taylor | 485 c502 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that?
Natascha Engel | 485 c474 (Link to this contribution) You're going to do it, aren't you? Okay.
Nigel Evans | 485 c474 (Link to this contribution) I am not too sure of what I am being accused. The hon. Lady's excitement about Europe's development ...
Natascha Engel | 485 c473-4 (Link to this contribution) With 27 nations of all sizes, even the smallest nations have a seat at the table where all the big d...
Natascha Engel | 485 c475 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I agree. However, a little scepticism does not go amiss—[Interruption.] They are not payi...
Natascha Engel | 485 c474 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for stopping me in mid, passionate flow. I am being positive about Europe...
Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 485 c474 (Link to this contribution) I am enjoying my hon. Friend's speech, especially the passion with which she is delivering it. Does ...
Natascha Engel | 485 c470-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a real honour and privilege to have listened to the debate for the past couple of hours. It is...
William Cash | 485 c466-7 (Link to this contribution) A European arrest warrant was not involved, but the fact is that such warrants are now part of the l...
Richard Younger-Ross | 485 c467 (Link to this contribution) Earlier, the hon. Gentleman seemed slightly confused about the Lib Dem position on the Lisbon treaty...
Richard Younger-Ross | 485 c467 (Link to this contribution) I was. An hon. Friend whom I will not name—that is up to him—was the other. On the European arrest ...
William Cash | 485 c467-8 (Link to this contribution) I understand that co-operation between police forces throughout Europe and beyond is a good idea. Ho...
William Cash | 485 c468 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman wants to intervene once more—once more only—I shall be happy to give way.
Natascha Engel | 485 c466 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman admit that that did not happen?
William Cash | 485 c468-70 (Link to this contribution) No, we do not, but we certainly do with the European Union. If we had a system of co-operation, we c...
David Burrowes | 485 c493-5 (Link to this contribution) I was in Kyrenia two weeks ago, when I saw for myself how fantastic it is. Sadly, it is being affect...
Michael Connarty | 485 c495 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to listen to the hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate (Mr. Burrowes). He clearly has ...
David Burrowes | 485 c489-93 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans), and I pay tribut...
Nigel Evans | 485 c493 (Link to this contribution) Those of us who have visited Cyprus in general, and Kyrenia in particular, know that if the island c...
Jo Swinson | 485 c486 (Link to this contribution) I am very sympathetic to the point that the hon. Gentleman makes about the ridiculous decamping of M...
Nigel Evans | 485 c486-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that almost historic contribution; an agreement between the Liber...
William Cash | 485 c483 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it looked highly probable when the present Prime Minister became Prim...
Nigel Evans | 485 c483-6 (Link to this contribution) I think that some deal must have been concocted. If the current Prime Minister had wanted to do a co...
Charles Kennedy | 485 c480-2 (Link to this contribution) None more patient than me, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I dare say that an inference can be drawn from what t...
Nigel Evans | 485 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Lochaber (Mr. Kennedy), particular...
Charles Kennedy | 485 c476-7 (Link to this contribution) I begin by paying tribute to somebody who was both a personal friend and a political mentor, not lea...
Nigel Evans | 485 c477 (Link to this contribution) I was a colleague of Russell on the Council of Europe and was with him on one of his last visits, in...
Charles Kennedy | 485 c477-80 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. It was nice of him, in a personal se...
William Cash | 485 c480 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the right hon. Gentleman, and we have heard that suggestion, too, but for all the ...
William Cash | 485 c476 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has managed to get me to my feet. On the question of sovereignty, I defend her right t...
Natascha Engel | 485 c476 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman very much for leaving it at that. I have spoken about the broad principl...
William Cash | 485 c465 (Link to this contribution) As far as Conservative Members are concerned, no more than four people were prepared to vote in favo...
Jo Swinson | 485 c465 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, the hon. Gentleman has completely misrepresented my party's position, which is that w...
William Cash | 485 c465 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. My hon. Friend, who has been a great ally in these matters over a long perio...
Nigel Evans | 485 c465 (Link to this contribution) Does that not reinforce the argument as to why we should have had a referendum in this country? If t...
William Cash | 485 c464-5 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary referred to several matters, and I will start with the Irish question. We are ...
Patricia Hewitt | 485 c463-4 (Link to this contribution) That is something that we debated at considerable length in the House when we went through many days...
Nigel Evans | 485 c463 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady has talked about the isolation of the Conservative party in Europe, but what abo...
Patricia Hewitt | 485 c463 (Link to this contribution) I did not realise that that was painful for some hon. Members to the extent that one of them cannot ...
William Cash | 485 c466 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. As the hon. Gentleman knows, I was recently in Prague, where I had the opportunity to vi...
David Miliband | 485 c410 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of European affairs." I am sure that the r...
David Miliband | 485 c410 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to disappoint the hon. Gentleman, but the minutes of that decision have not yet been publ...
Bob Spink | 485 c410 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary failed to mention something in his review of the agenda, and is now going on t...
David Miliband | 485 c411 (Link to this contribution) Not in the middle of my sentence, but if the hon. Gentleman waits I am happy to help him. The place...
Angus Robertson | 485 c410 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Miliband | 485 c420 (Link to this contribution) The Government's position is to defend the EU-Israel trade agreement of 2000, as amended in 2004, wh...
Paul Keetch | 485 c419 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The Foreign Secretary is right to say that the ESDP mission is the first naval deployme...
David Miliband | 485 c419 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has long taken a principled stand in favour of the ESDP, and I applaud him for it...
David Miliband | 485 c419 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but it is a quotation from the American ambassador to NATO, so let us be careful.
Ed Davey | 485 c420 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Foreign Secretary could read the quote a third time because it shows the disarray in the...
David Wilshire | 485 c420 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary gave me the lead that I needed when he mentioned civilian involvement in some ...
David Miliband | 485 c420 (Link to this contribution) On the first part of the hon. Gentleman's question, I completely agree that there must be proper acc...
Mark Pritchard | 485 c421 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful that the Foreign Secretary is so well briefed. On Russia, clearly the Sarkozy plan sho...
David Miliband | 485 c421 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that he is the chairman of the all-party group on Russia and on that basis I...
Mike Gapes | 485 c420 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Miliband | 485 c421-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has anticipated the exciting denouement to my speech and my paean of praise to the Eu...
Mike Gapes | 485 c421 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary referred to civilian missions, but he has not yet referred to what has happene...
David Miliband | 485 c421 (Link to this contribution) That really is a foolish way to describe the position. The Government are not going soft and we are ...
Speaker | 485 c422 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that this is going to be a point of order, but let me hear it.
David Miliband | 485 c422 (Link to this contribution) There is the voice of the modern Tory party. Actually, the hon. Gentleman wants to pull out of the E...
Lord Redwood | 485 c416 (Link to this contribution) Why is it that EU competition rules have put Northern Rock into wind-up to avoid subsidised competit...
David Miliband | 485 c416 (Link to this contribution) I promised to give way to the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood).
David Miliband | 485 c416 (Link to this contribution) The particular accounting standards for Northern Rock are the subject of a long and detailed debate....
Jo Swinson | 485 c416 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary see the irony in the fact that, at the very time when the climate change ...
David Miliband | 485 c416 (Link to this contribution) I am troubled by that, and I will do my best with my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to resist ...
David Miliband | 485 c416 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an important point. I had a long and detailed bilateral meeting with the Polish ...
David Miliband | 485 c415 (Link to this contribution) I will bring in the right hon. Gentleman after I have set out my argument. The Government are clear...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 485 c415 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend troubled by reports in the European press—not just in Germany—that some of t...
David Miliband | 485 c415 (Link to this contribution) I give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart), as I promised. Then I...
David Miliband | 485 c418 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a profoundly important point, but it is not what I was actually talking abo...
Lembit Opik | 485 c418 (Link to this contribution) On terrorism, I would like to ask the Foreign Secretary to consider whether the forthcoming EU summi...
David Miliband | 485 c418 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to give way on that point.
David Miliband | 485 c418 (Link to this contribution) There is certainly discussion about European humanitarian aid, but beyond that and the sanctions, my...
David Miliband | 485 c417 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a doughty fighter for a modern car industry, and therefore, by definition, a green...
Andrew Miller | 485 c417 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware of meetings that have taken place between the Society of Motor Ma...
David Miliband | 485 c417 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. It is fair to say that we have only scratched the surface o...
Rob Marris | 485 c417 (Link to this contribution) Could my right hon. Friend say a little more about what the European Union is doing on the other sid...
David Miliband | 485 c413 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I tangled many times when I was Secretary of State for Environment, Food and ...
Daniel Kawczynski | 485 c413 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary is discussing the economy, and I am sure that he agrees that one thing that wi...
David Miliband | 485 c413 (Link to this contribution) Exactly. We have made it plain that in principle we support entry into the euro, but that in practic...
Patricia Hewitt | 485 c413 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has made an important point about the fiscal stimulus package in Germany as wel...
David Miliband | 485 c414 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an important point, and I differ in only one respect: she has mentioned a...
David Miliband | 485 c414 (Link to this contribution) Just let me make this point. The proof of how out of touch the Opposition are comes from the shadow ...
David Miliband | 485 c414 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to my right hon. Friend the former Minister for Europe; then I must make progress.
Denis MacShane | 485 c414 (Link to this contribution) While my right hon. Friend is on the subject of themes raised by Labour Members, may I ask him wheth...
David Miliband | 485 c414 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a good point. I thought that he would refer to one of his own New Statesm...
David Miliband | 485 c414 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall make some progress. The economic package—
Ann Winterton | 485 c414 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Lord Redwood | 485 c414 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Miliband | 485 c415 (Link to this contribution) Let me make a bit of progress; after that, I will be happy to give way to my hon. Friend. The aspir...
David Miliband | 485 c414-5 (Link to this contribution) No. I did say that I would make progress, and I really must. The package also sends a clear signal t...
Angus Robertson | 485 c411 (Link to this contribution) The largest market in the European Union is the Federal Republic of Germany. Why was Chancellor Ange...
Dennis Skinner | 485 c411 (Link to this contribution) Is it because she is a German Tory?
David Miliband | 485 c411 (Link to this contribution) No, it is not for the reason given by my hon. Friend. She was not invited to the meeting, because it...
David Miliband | 485 c412 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will allow me to make this point, I shall give way to him afterwards. I am ve...
Keith Vaz | 485 c411 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary has rightly mentioned the economic climate. What effect does he believe that i...
David Miliband | 485 c411 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I think that my right hon. Friend is referring to the Lisbon agenda for growth and jobs, not th...
David Miliband | 485 c411 (Link to this contribution) I can absolutely assure my right hon. Friend that the principles that were set out remain very impor...
Mark Pritchard | 485 c412 (Link to this contribution) Notwithstanding the Foreign Secretary's last comments, is it not the case that Chancellor Merkel has...
William Cash | 485 c412 (Link to this contribution) Following on from the point made by the hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson), does the Foreign Se...
Speaker | 485 c412 (Link to this contribution) Order. That is an abuse of the intervention system.
David Miliband | 485 c413 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made a very good point. One Conservative Member of the European Parliament famous...
Daniel Kawczynski | 485 c413 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Miliband | 485 c413 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but it is true. The hon. Gentleman can say that it is not true until he is blue in the f...
David Chaytor | 485 c413 (Link to this contribution) Is the reality not that the impact of the financial crisis has changed public opinion? More than eve...
David Miliband | 485 c412 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman formulated the question before I gave the figures in answering th...
David Miliband | 485 c422-3 (Link to this contribution) Let us, for the record, be absolutely clear that what the hon. Gentleman said ““ Never”” to was the ...
Daniel Kawczynski | 485 c422 (Link to this contribution) May I state for the record that I have not called for a withdrawal from the European Union? It is hi...
Speaker | 485 c422 (Link to this contribution) That is a matter for debate, not a point of order.
David Miliband | 485 c423 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that they are a bunch of communists. That says a lot about—[Interruption.] W...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c423 (Link to this contribution) There has often been a ritualistic air to our six-monthly debates on European matters, and the closi...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c424 (Link to this contribution) And, indeed, what he said in public a few weeks ago. However, the Finnish Foreign Minister then came...
Kelvin Hopkins | 485 c426 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman not accept that the Prime Minister committed one act of great wisdom i...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c427 (Link to this contribution) No, I will just finish on this matter, because the hon. Member for Luton, North (Kelvin Hopkins) mad...
Mark Hendrick | 485 c427 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c425 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman makes a powerful case about Zimbabwean asylum seekers, but I would w...
Ed Davey | 485 c424-5 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with the right hon. Gentleman's remarks about Zimbabwe, especially his point abou...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c426 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right to draw attention to that passage, which does indeed appear in the con...
Lord Redwood | 485 c425 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is correctly defending the German position, which is more prudent. The draft co...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c427-8 (Link to this contribution) I have taken a number of interventions, and I will give way to the hon. Gentleman later, if he behav...
Speaker | 485 c427 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) is clearly not giving way at this time....
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c428 (Link to this contribution) Oh, I am not going to move on; I shall give way to my hon. Friend.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c428 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is, of course, right to say that that would have been catastrophic. What I make...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 485 c428 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend will be aware, just as Europe was about to go into recession, the European C...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c429 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman; he has behaved.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c428-9 (Link to this contribution) The point I would make in relation to the one made by my hon. Friend is that the 57 per cent. of gro...
William Cash | 485 c428 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to hear that. Would my right hon. Friend also reflect upon the fact that the figures given...
Mark Hendrick | 485 c429 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way; he is quite gracious. Since when has it been Conser...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c429 (Link to this contribution) I did not catch the end of the question, but I think that the hon. Gentleman was asking about tax re...
Daniel Kawczynski | 485 c430 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend share my concerns about the British rebate and the fact that under this Go...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c429-30 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman has had his opportunity to ask that. My hon. Friend the Member for ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 485 c430 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman mentions the subsidies that the transfers from the UK have given to the Eur...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c430 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. It looks as if we will fall behind Italy soon, in terms of th...
Denis MacShane | 485 c430 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c430 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman is very familiar with our wish to see greater local and national cont...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c430 (Link to this contribution) As a former Minister for Europe, the right hon. Gentleman may know the answers to those questions, a...
Ed Davey | 485 c444-5 (Link to this contribution) Yes. The other major issue at the summit is climate change, which has been a critical policy priori...
Nigel Evans | 485 c444 (Link to this contribution) The Government's policy is to have a referendum of the British people on the euro before we would ac...
Ed Davey | 485 c445 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the bait has been taken again.
Ed Davey | 485 c443-4 (Link to this contribution) Let me explain for the hon. Gentleman that we do not think that Britain should join the euro in the ...
Ed Davey | 485 c444 (Link to this contribution) I have already said that that is of course a possibility, but I do not think that it is going to hap...
Lord Swire | 485 c444 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman believe that it is not entirely impossible that some existing members of the...
Ed Davey | 485 c445 (Link to this contribution) There are one or two other people who share the views of Roger Helmer. Their position is about as is...
William Cash | 485 c445 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the new President, Václav Klaus, has said something that was not gr...
Denis MacShane | 485 c448 (Link to this contribution) I think that both the Government's position and—if I may speak for the Conservative Front Bench—the ...
Ed Davey | 485 c446-8 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman knows that if there were a referendum, I would argue for a yes vote,...
Daniel Kawczynski | 485 c446 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being extraordinarily disparaging to the British people by saying that their d...
Ed Davey | 485 c446 (Link to this contribution) I refer the hon. Gentleman to my many answers to his colleagues over the years. The truth is that t...
Ed Davey | 485 c446 (Link to this contribution) I would be more than happy to do that—[Interruption.] We have discussed this many times in these deb...
David Burrowes | 485 c446 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman explain the inconsistency of the Liberal Democrats' willingness to give the ...
Ed Davey | 485 c446 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may say that, but we all know that the only way in which the Irish could ratify t...
Ed Davey | 485 c448-9 (Link to this contribution) I think that, as usual, the right hon. Gentleman has not only oversold his case but made himself loo...
David Wilshire | 485 c449 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to give the House a rare treat. The right hon. Member for Rotherha...
Ed Davey | 485 c449-50 (Link to this contribution) Of course it is. I do not see how whatever I have said contradicts that. Of course those countries h...
David Wilshire | 485 c456-60 (Link to this contribution) May I start with a provisional apology to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and to the House? I have an impor...
Ann Clwyd | 485 c450-6 (Link to this contribution) I want to talk mainly about Turkey this evening. I want to do so because although I welcome Turkey's...
Jo Swinson | 485 c461-2 (Link to this contribution) I am listening with interest to what the right hon. Lady says about how we fund the mitigation activ...
Patricia Hewitt | 485 c460-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to take part in this debate and to follow the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Mr. Wilsh...
Patricia Hewitt | 485 c462-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that point, and for her support for my argument; I think that she...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c432 (Link to this contribution) That is one of the many things that that might illustrate. The Foreign Secretary certainly clutched ...
Mike Gapes | 485 c432 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that in June, when the Irish referendum was held, only 13 memb...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c431 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way only twice more, because I have not yet come on to the major foreign policy issues ...
Denis MacShane | 485 c430-1 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Foreign Secretary's last point about the depreciation in the value of sterling is importa...
Denis MacShane | 485 c431 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the Tories should not send the message out that they oppose a dime of solidarity with...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c431 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that we have been foul about the Poles. In fact, a party that contains my hon. Friend...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c435-6 (Link to this contribution) One might regard that as a side issue, given the matters that I have just described. [Interruption.]...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c434 (Link to this contribution) I will, one last time, because I know that the right hon. Gentleman has a strong interest in the sub...
Denis MacShane | 485 c435 (Link to this contribution) I agree with much of what the right hon. Gentleman said. Handling Russia correctly is an enormous in...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c434 (Link to this contribution) I think that I will get on, as I know that hon. Members, including my hon. Friend, wish to take part...
Denis MacShane | 485 c434 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c432-3 (Link to this contribution) I have given way to the hon. Gentleman already, and in fairness to the rest of the House, because I ...
William Cash | 485 c433 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way on that point?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c432 (Link to this contribution) We are not quite sure what point the hon. Gentleman is making. In the one country that had a referen...
Mike Gapes | 485 c438 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to explain the contradictions in the Conservative party, because it has enough problem...
David Wilshire | 485 c438 (Link to this contribution) I want to see whether I can cheer up the hon. Gentleman about Albania, about which he has rightly ma...
Mike Gapes | 485 c438-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, which gives me the opportunity to say that I recently met the l...
David Burrowes | 485 c439 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that dynamic in relation to accession to the European Union may o...
Mike Gapes | 485 c436-7 (Link to this contribution) I want to concentrate on just three areas, beginning with the future of the Lisbon treaty. The Irish...
Mike Gapes | 485 c437 (Link to this contribution) It is, but it is politically important. The reality is that there is no way, unless the issue of the...
Daniel Kawczynski | 485 c437 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, so does he agree that Greece should...
Mike Gapes | 485 c437 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately for the hon. Gentleman and all of us who want to see simple solutions to such matters,...
Mark Hendrick | 485 c437-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way—the shadow Foreign Secretary was reluctant to take my interven...
Ed Davey | 485 c443 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman did rise to the bait slightly in that intervention, and his analysis of economic ...
Ed Davey | 485 c443 (Link to this contribution) In a second. I was waiting for the hon. Gentleman to intervene and if he lets me finish this sentenc...
Nigel Evans | 485 c439-40 (Link to this contribution) What the hon. Gentleman says is absolutely true. There will be a greater onus on European Union coun...
Mike Gapes | 485 c440 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with everything that the hon. Gentleman says. Perhaps that is a topic for tomorro...
Mike Gapes | 485 c439 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to get into the subject of the negotiations on Cyprus, which is in a strange position ...
Ed Davey | 485 c442-3 (Link to this contribution) I think that that was supposed to be a helpful intervention, but we know what President-elect Obama ...
William Cash | 485 c443 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Ed Davey | 485 c440-1 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) began his remarks by reminding the House that,...
Mark Hendrick | 485 c441-2 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with the hon. Gentleman. I would venture to suggest that there are two reasons for t...
Richard Younger-Ross | 485 c468 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may remember the costa del crime—extradition agreements sometimes work and someti...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 485 c426-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman anticipates a passage a few pages later in my speech. Having not talked about the...
William Cash | 485 c443 (Link to this contribution) Has it occurred to the hon. Gentleman that, over a fairly extended period, there has been a failure ...
Speaker | 485 c480 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash) has had a very fair ration of the debate and others are ...
David Miliband | 485 c419-20 (Link to this contribution) No. I am sorry, but I enjoyed that so much that I will have to read it again. The US ambassador to N...
Doug Henderson | 485 c418 (Link to this contribution) Apart from the Zimbabwean diplomats and politicians with whom the European Union has dealt already t...
David Miliband | 485 c411 (Link to this contribution) If hon. Members will allow me to make progress, I am happy to accept their interventions in a moment...
Viscount Hailsham | 485 c431-2 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the fact that the Foreign Secretary did not know the contents o...
David Miliband | 485 c412 (Link to this contribution) I shall answer the part of the question before the abuse started by giving the hon. Gentleman the fi...
Lord Swire | 485 c443 (Link to this contribution) Is the logical conclusion of the hon. Gentleman's argument that during this extremely fragile econom...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 485 c432 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
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