European Council

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 3:32 pm on 27 June 2011.

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Photo of Conor Burns Conor Burns Conservative, Bournemouth West 3:32, 27 June 2011

The Prime Minister will have spoken for the overwhelming majority in this country when he expressed his anger at the proposed £280 million new European headquarters. Was any progress made at this Council meeting in implementing the coalition agreement’s aspiration to end the obscenity of the European Parliament moving between Brussels and Strasbourg, wasting a huge amount of money? Does he agree that anybody who does not agree with those points is, to use a phrase coined at that Dispatch Box, living in cloud-cuckoo land?