Brussels, 08/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - British Liberal Democrat Andrew Duff, MEP, welcomed the seventh report of the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union which is especially opposed to the creation, recommended by Tony Blair in particular, of a kind of "second chamber of the European Parliament made up of national MPs". Mr Duff, who gave oral and written evidence to the Select Committee, is pleased to note that the upper House found the Prime Minister's suggestion "an unreal solution". He himself finds it "ill thought-out". The main democratic deficit does not lie with Parliament but with the Council where national MPs should concentrate on holding their own government ministers to account, said Mr Duff. He trusts that the House of Lords has thus "killed off the idea of resurrecting the old, non-elected European Parliament, and that others who tinker with the same idea, such as the French Senate, will now change their minds".