UKIP: Constitutional Reform Bill in the House of Lords today

UKIP is introducing a Constitutional Reform Bill into the House of Lords this afternoon.

Lord Willoughby de Broke will ensure the First Reading of the bill at 3.07 pm this Tuesday afternoon, 2 June.

The bill's preamble:

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Repeal the European Communities Act 1972 and the Human Rights Act 1998; introduce binding referendum powers at national and local level; require the approval of Parliament to enter into international treaties and to declare war; make provision about the work of Parliament; devolve legislative responsibility for certain policy areas to local authorities; and for connected purposes.

The opening clauses:

1 Withdrawal from the European Union

(1) The European Communites Act 1972 (c. 68) is repealed.

(2) Courts in the United Kingdom shall no longer have judicial notice of decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Communities or the Court of First Instance.

2 Human rights

The Human Rights Act 1998 (c. 42) is repealed.

There is, as everyone knows at the moment, a huge hunger for change in the system. UKIP are introducing this bill so as to provide those very changes needed. Procedure in the House of Lords means that this bill will indeed enter the legislative system and will progress. It is very much more than an EDM or 10 minute bill in the Commons.