If you’ve felt your heart beating a little faster than usual, and a strange sense of excitement creeping all over you, it’s because #letbritaindecide fever is back in Parliament. Yes, folks, the fun returns, and this time for the committee stage of the bill, from 2pm today.
I’ve already reported Mike Gapes’ amusing amendments to the legislation which are designed to cause trouble. He has put a few more down of a similarly mischevious ilk, changing the question about Britain’s membership of the EU to a question about whether Britain should join the Schengen Agreement, or the euro.
But Labour’s frontbench has also tabled some changes to provoke a row. Emma Reynolds, Labour’s Shadow Europe Minister, has added a line to the legislation which would mean a referendum would only take place ‘if there is a further transfer of power from the United Kingdom to the European Union’, which is the case anyway (as the Lib Dems like to remind us), and a change to the date.
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