EU: Law-making Process

Viscount Waverley Excerpts
Monday 1st July 2019

(4 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Viscount Waverley Portrait Viscount Waverley (CB)
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My Lords, is the practical reality not that this Question comes a little late in the day—in fact, 40 years too late—and that if we had had a better understanding of all these issues at the start we would not be in the pickle we are in now?

Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan
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There may be some truth in that, but if I had any criticisms of the EU system—and I have a lot of them—I might suggest that the unnecessary complexity would be one of the reasons why people voted to leave.