Intergovernmental Conference

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:27 pm on 21 March 1996.

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Photo of Malcolm Rifkind Malcolm Rifkind Foreign Secretary 4:27, 21 March 1996

This Government and this country have always been staunch upholders of the rule of law. I trust that my hon. Friend—[Interruption.] It is the law that this Parliament has indicated it believes to be the law to which we are subject. I do not believe that it would be the will of the British people to disobey the law. It is a quite different matter as to whether—