EU Council

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 3:30 pm on 12 December 2011.

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Photo of David Cameron David Cameron The Prime Minister, Leader of the Conservative Party 3:30, 12 December 2011

My hon. Friend is right. Institutional arrangements and treaty arrangements in the EU must be agreed by unanimity. If anyone is not content with what is being put forward, it is perfectly acceptable to do what I did and say, “I am not happy to go ahead with the treaty without these safeguards.”