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EU referendum "lock"?

Door. Horse. Bolted.

Since May, there have been five new transfers of power to Brussels - creating the European External Action Service, extending the European Arrest Warrant, increasing our EU budget contribution, EU regulation over the City, and EU oversight over British budgets.

On not one of these occasions have ministers admited that power was being transferred.

So what hope is there in a "referendum lock" that can only be triggered if ministers are prepared to admit that what their civil servants have agreed to ceded to the EU is significant?  

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