European Affairs

Part of Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 5:52 pm on 18 June 2008.

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Photo of David Heathcoat-Amory David Heathcoat-Amory Conservative, Wells 5:52, 18 June 2008

My hon. Friend will be aware that the Conservative party is committed to a renegotiation, because it is party policy to seek to repatriate employment and social legislation—that has been repeated by the shadow Foreign Secretary and by the leader of our party. Does he agree that that in itself entails an examination of the role of certain surpranational institutions, such as the European Court, because otherwise there is a danger of an activist Court seeking to reintroduce obligations through the back door by using other treaty articles? Therefore, we are already committed to this profound renegotiation.