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Brief extract from the BBC report on the link given in the first posting to this thread:

The House of Lords has voted against holding a referendum on the EU Treaty. Peers dismissed a Conservative proposal by a margin of 62 votes. The Tories argued the treaty was largely similar to the discarded EU Constitution. But the government and Lib Dems said it was not needed as the treaty would not alter the UK's own constitution. The Lords vote - by 280 to 218 - clears the way for the bill ratifying the EU treaty to become law next week.

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European Union (Amendment) Bill (EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty) – text of the debate today in the House of Lords on having an EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty referendum (the following text will appear on Hansard records on the following website tomorrow in the section dated 11.6.2008):

Hansard - Lords | Houses of Parliament

How Peers voted in today’s vote in the Lords on having an EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty referendum (please scroll down the page after clicking on the following link):

Hansard - Lords | Houses of Parliament

Petrina

Not one mention on the News or on Newsnight ,utterly disgraceful .
Time we all complained about this lack of coverage .There was masses of coverage of the 42 day vote in the Commons but not one word about this .All in all a good day to slip this by the British public .