The question of sovereignty and our right to self-determination arises frequently. I do not have to remind older Members that when we joined the European Union we were told that we had just achieved some kind of sovereignty, independence and freedom and that we would now throw it all away. What we achieved was the right to decide for ourselves how to organise our future. The decision to join the European Union was a wise one. I was speaking last week to a pro-Europe section of the British Conservative Party in Guildford. I explained that I believed the people of Norway, who rejected membership of the European Union, had been deceived by their own government.