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Speeches on Friday

Hansard now has Friday's speeches on the parliamentary website.  I spoke in both debates.

This is a link to my speech in the EU referendum debate.

This is the debate on the Transparency and Accountability bill

Both are I think important speeches.   The difficulty on the issue of pan-European institutions (including the Council of Europe and the European Union) is that the heat of the debate tends to obscure the underlying issues.   The underlying issues are, however, real and we should not avoid them.

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