Informal European Council

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 3:41 pm on 31 January 2012.

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Photo of Simon Hughes Simon Hughes Deputy Leader, Liberal Democrats 3:41, 31 January 2012

After what was clearly a much more successful and satisfactory summit than the one in December—the Prime Minister came back with clear EU commitments to democracy around the world, and to the single market and the extra jobs that it can sustain, particularly in the energy industry at home—will he agree that his constituents, like mine, want the Government to concentrate, as Europe appears to be united in doing, on jobs, growth, training and skills, instead of obsessing about constitutional and treaty niceties? Those are not important.