National Referendum on the European Union

Part of Backbench Business — [34th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 6:40 pm on 24 October 2011.

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Photo of Michael Connarty Michael Connarty Labour, Linlithgow and East Falkirk 6:40, 24 October 2011

It was so close to the Lisbon treaty that I assumed they had read it. Can my hon. Friend tell me where in the Lisbon treaty it says anything other than that. One clause allows an in/out decision, but there is nothing else in the treaty on that?