Part of Oral Answers to Questions — European Community – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 October 1980.
Mr Hugh Dykes
, Harrow East
12:00,
29 October 1980
Does my right hon. Friend agree that when hon. Members use the word "renegotiate" in this sense it is a euphemism for "withdraw", though they are afraid to say so, particularly after the resounding support for our continued membership expressed at, for example, the Conservative Party conference? Is not the psychology of public opinion that, while people grumble about various detailed aspects of policy, which is natural, they nevertheless wish to remain in the EEC and to develop it institutionally through the strength of all the members?