MP highlights concerns ahead of EU summit This week in the House of Commons, John Baron MP spoke in a debate about the proposed EU banking union, which will be established following a forthcoming EU summit. The banking union is intended as a measure to resolve the Euro crisis by centralising supervision of Eurozone...
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MP says last night’s victory should be a wake-up call to all Governments Last night John Baron MP, a lifelong Eurosceptic, voted with fellow rebels and defeated the Coalition Government in its wish for a real term freeze in the UK’s budget contribution to the EU. Instead, the Eurosceptic amendment, supported by the...
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MP signs petition to stop the ‘Strasbourg Circus’ John Baron MP recently signed a petition to end the ‘travelling circus’ which four days every month sees 754 MEPs, over 3,000 staff and 25 truckloads of official papers shuttle between the twin seats of the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg. This vast and...
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MP highlights Government’s willingness to opt-in to EU measures Today in the House of Commons, Rt Hon Theresa May MP, the Home Secretary, made a statement to the House regarding the Government’s decision to opt-out of a block of EU police and crime measures. John took the opportunity to press the Home Secretary as...
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MP still awaiting reply to letter co-signed by 100 MPs Yesterday in Parliament, during a Westminster Hall debate on the relationship between the UK and the European Union, John Baron MP again raised the fact that the Prime Minister still has not replied to a letter John and 100 of his Parliamentary colleagues sent...
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Objective is to let the British people have their say Following his letter to the Prime Minister, co-signed by 100 MPs, calling for an EU referendum, John Baron MP has launched an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for an EU referendum. The inaugural meeting will take place at 10.30am, 16th October, in Committee Room 10....
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MP accuses EU bureaucrats of prolonging the crisis A debate was held this week in the House of Commons on a new law agreeing to the creation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The ESM will be a permanent bailout mechanism for the Eurozone, and is meant to play a part in ending the...
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MP questions why a commitment now can not be given Today in the House of Commons during a statement by the Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon William Hague MP, on a Government initiative to commit to undertake an audit of EU powers, John Baron MP pressed the case for an EU referendum. John has written...
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Prime Minister apologises for any misrepresentation Today in the House of Commons during a Statement on the EU Council, John Baron MP pressed the Prime Minister regarding the letter written by John and signed by 100 colleagues. The letter called for legislation in this Parliament for a referendum in the next. The letter was...
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MP organises mass letter of Conservative MPs Last night John Baron MP delivered a letter, signed by over 90 Conservative MPs, to Number 10 Downing Street. The letter calls upon the Prime Minister to place on the Statute Book by the next General Election a commitment to hold a referendum on the nature...
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