EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Attorney-General – in the House of Commons at 12:33 pm on 19 November 2013.

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Photo of David Nuttall David Nuttall Conservative, Bury North 12:33, 19 November 2013

On 21 January 2008, Hansard records Mr Murphy, who was then the Europe Minister, saying:

“It is clear that the UK does not have an opt-out on the charter of fundamental rights”.—[Hansard, 21 January 2008; Vol. 470, c. 1317.]

On 14 November 2009, the current Prime Minister, then Leader of the Opposition, said:

“We will want a complete opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights.”

Does the Lord Chancellor agree that this latest case demonstrates more than ever that if a complete opt-out is not agreed in any future renegotiation of Britain’s membership of the EU, the British people will be fully justified in voting to leave the European Union?