European Security and Defence Policy

Part of Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords] (Programme) – in the House of Commons at 11:10 pm on 19 March 2001.

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Photo of John Gummer John Gummer Conservative, Suffolk Coastal 11:10, 19 March 2001

Will the hon. Gentleman help the House further on this matter? He has made a number of comments but has not been able to answer the question that was in my mind and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr. Duncan Smith). The Minister prays in aid the Maastricht treaty—which I voted for—yet his leader voted against it and made it clear that the very things that the Minister now says are good about it were not good. What has changed in the meantime?