European Union Referendum Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:41 pm on 9 June 2015.

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Photo of Ian Austin Ian Austin Labour, Dudley North 12:41, 9 June 2015

Speaking as somebody who worked in the Treasury between 1999 and 2005, may I remind the Foreign Secretary that it was a Labour Government that designed the five tests, a Labour Government that carried out the assessment and a Labour Government that kept us out of the single currency? It is thanks to a Labour Government that we are not in the single currency today.