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Caron Lindsay

Coalition stooshie* as Tories refuse deal to get EU Referendum Bill debated

By Caron Lindsay | Tue 28th October 2014 - 10:50 pm

There’s been an almighty row in the Coalition over which Private Members Bills should be given government support.

The Liberal Democrats had offered the Tories a deal which would have given both Bob Neill’s Bill on an EU referendum and Andrew George’s on the Bedroom Tax a fair chance of becoming law. In return, the Tories offered the Liberal Democrats a deal under which only the EU Bill would have stood a chance. We’d have been daft to have let them away with it.

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