Euro: Support for Joining

Baroness Smith of Newnham Excerpts

Monday 9th May 2016 Lords Chamber

[Lord Ashton of Hyde]

I am too young to have been in the House then, but I know Professor Dahrendorf was at the LSE, which is quite clear that we should remain in the EU.

[Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD)]

My Lords, if the intention behind the Question was to infer current wisdom—or otherwise—from past behaviour, could the Minister remind the House which Chancellor of the Exchequer shadowed the deutschmark and pressed the late Baroness Thatcher to enter into the exchange rate mechanism of the European monetary system?

[Lord Ashton of Hyde]

I think I am too young to remember.