Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:44 pm on 28 November 1994.

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Photo of Gordon Brown Gordon Brown Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer 4:44, 28 November 1994

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, whose erudition in those matters is well known. I heard the Chief Secretary to the Treasury yesterday repeating the words that the Chancellor said today: that we had to honour obligations that were made internationally and we could not be put off by a minority of dissidents in the House. The very Chief Secretary who says that this year was the person who voted against an analogous Bill as recently as a few years ago. [Interruption.] He does not seem to understand that that was also a negotiated treaty that he was asking the House to vote against.

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