It’s not been a big news story, but if you think about it, it could be one of the biggest political stories of 2008: on Thursday, Irish voters choose in a referendum whether or not to approve the Treaty of […]

My heart is sinking as David Miliband opens the third reading debate on the EU (Amendment) Bill. Yet again all the same old arguments are going to be thrashed out, no doubt at great length, and repetitively. It’s all important, […]

All the interminable committee debates on the EU (Amendment) Bill come to a head tonight, with a debate and vote on the Tories’ amendment, which would require a referendum – though they may withdraw this and back Labour backbencher Ian […]

He wasn’t impressed by yesterday’s Lib Dem performance.

It’s Groundhog Day again, as I watch yet more debate on the EU (Amendment) Bill. Early this afternoon the debate was about climate change and the environment, and was blissfully light on Europaranoia.

But this evening Dominic Grieve, shadow […]

The interminable and frustrating debate on the Lisbon was livened up this afternoon by a major spat between the Liberal Democrats and the Deputy Speaker, Sir Michael Lord. Ed Davey was unhappy I think that a Lib Dem amendment hadn’t […]

The Commons continues today to debate the Bill – and today I expect the debate to be a true Europhobiafest, since the theme is human rights, a subject which, even when not linked to the EU, causes much […]

The Tory MP for Shrewsbury, Daniel Kawczynski, has tabled an interesting amendment which would require the government to renegotiate the Lisbon treaty to insert a declaration that the EU is based on its Christian faith, heritage, culture and […]

The doughty, determined, slightly hatstand doyen of English Tory Euroscepticism, Bill Cash MP, has tabled an amendment paper making provision for a referendum. No surprise there.

The opposition front bench has tabled a series of amendments to the bill: here they are. They seem designed simply to trigger debate particularly on the Common Foreign and Security Policy, though they’ve also tabled amendments which would require […]