European Union (Referendum) Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:18 pm on 5 July 2013.

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Photo of Martin Horwood Martin Horwood Liberal Democrat, Cheltenham 12:18, 5 July 2013

On a point of information, the question in 1975 was not about the European Economic Community, but the European Community. The words “Common Market” were inserted by Eurosceptics in Harold Wilson’s Government. A lot of that historical debate, which I have been looking at over the past couple of days, was about the political, social and international aspects of the European Community. Those aspects were in Harold Wilson’s official leaflet that went out.