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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8886
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/constitution

House of Commons approves bill on holding referendum - Warning from Jack Straw

Brussels, 10/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - The House of Commons on Wednesday approved the bill (345 in favour, 130 against) which will allow a referendum to be held in the UK on the European Constitution, probably in 2006. In the course of the Commons debate, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw gave assurances that if the Constitution is adopted, no further integration would take place for decades, whereas if the British people reject it, “we are in unknown territory, weak and isolated in Europe”....

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