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 Mr Teddy Taylor Mr Teddy Taylor , Southend East 4:27, 21 March 1996

I fully accept the important point that the Foreign Secretary makes, but does he not accept that many of us believe that the wording of the Advocate General's judgment, or recommendation, is so wide that the whole social chapter will be applied to this country by majority voting through the Single European Act? If by any chance those who take that view happened to be correct, what would the Government do? What advice would they give?

I fully accept what my right hon. and learned Friend says about the sanctity of law, but if our exclusion is virtually written off and torn up because of the abuse of the European Court, surely we must do something.