Treaty of Lisbon (No. 6) — [6th Allotted Day]
Business of the House (Lisbon Treaty) (No. 5)
4:19 pm
William Cash (Stone, Conservative)
I strongly endorse what my hon. Friend is saying. Many of us present are extremely keen to ensure that poverty is eradicated and have individually and collectively done as much as possible to try to make that case. However, the legal frameworks that are created for the common commercial policy, for example, and its connection to the External Action Service and all the rest that goes with it, create a dynamic that can positively prevent the very objectives that the Government have set themselves in relation to the millennium goals, because the European Union probably will not be able to achieve them.