Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Commission Committee – in the House of Commons at 3:19 pm on 22 June 2010.
Is the right hon. Gentleman not a bit concerned that the Government now accept that the European Union perhaps has the right to scrutinise the budgets of euro countries before those budgets are implemented? Does he not believe that that could be the thin end of the wedge, and that such scrutiny might eventually extend to all members of the European Union?