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How's that promise to repatriate power coming along?

“We will work to bring back key powers over legal rights, criminal justice and social and employment legislation to the UK”. Conservative Party election manifesto. May 2010.

Eurozone bailout deal nodded through. May 2010.

EU arrest warrant extended to include European Investigation Order. July 2010. 

European External Action Service voted through House of Commons. July 2010.

City regulation conceded to the Eurosystem.  Summer 2010.

Van Rompuy report handing fiscal and budget competence to Brussels agreed to. September 2010.

“It’s fair to say that quite a lot of my Conservative colleagues wish the government was openly calling for a repatriation of powers from the EU" David Lidington MP, Europe minister. June 2011.

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