I chose tonight to support Douglas Carswell’s modest and conservative amendment to the draft EU Budget Bill:
Line 2, leave out from β2011β to end and add βis concerned at the above-inflation increase being made to Britainβs EU budget contribution; believes that, at a time when the Government is poised to make reductions in public spending elsewhere, it is wrong to increase that contribution; and calls on the Government to reduce Britainβs EU budget contributionβ.
This amendment was not successful.
I wish Justine Greening every success as she sets out to defend British interests in the EU budget negotiations tomorrow.