Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families – in the House of Commons at 3:31 pm on 17 December 2007.
The Prime Minister's idea of Christmas on this matter is about as cheerful as Jacob Marley's. Why is he in breach of the resolution of the House of Commons of November 1998, in respect of the European Scrutiny Committee's refusal to clear the IGC opinion on the treaty? Will he, therefore, in accordance with that resolution—and given his much vaunted enthusiasm in his "Governance of Britain" Green Paper for giving full account to Parliament—appear before the Committee and explain why he thinks that this treaty is not substantially equivalent to the constitutional treaty?