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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mps-defeat-eu-membership-poll-bid.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A bid led by Tory Peter Bone to give British people the right to have a referendum on membership of the European Union has been defeated" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-mps-defeat-eu-membership-poll-bid.jpg" alt="A bid led by Tory Peter Bone to give British people the right to have a referendum on membership of the European Union has been defeated"/></a></p>
<p>A bid by eurosceptic MPs to give the British people the right to have an in/out referendum on Britain&#8217;s membership of the European Union has been overwhelmingly defeated in the Commons.</p>
<p>The call by veteran Tory Peter Bone was defeated by 295 votes to 26, Government majority 269.</p>
<p>Mr Bone called for people to be given the right to have their say on the UK&#8217;s continued membership of the EU if the public voted &#8220;no&#8221; in a referendum held under the European Union Bill.</p>
<p>Under his proposal a victory for the &#8220;no&#8221; campaign in a referendum would trigger a second plebiscite which could see the UK break with Brussels.</p>
<p>Mr Bone, who was speaking during the Bill&#8217;s fifth day of committee stage debate said: &#8220;If this new clause is passed there would have to be binding in/out referendum on our membership of the European Union if two hurdles are cleared.</p>
<p>&#8220;One: a referendum is triggered under the European Union Bill due to a proposed transfer of competency. Two: and the British people vote against such a transfer of power.&#8221;</p>
<p>Labour former minister Kate Hoey, a supporter of Mr Bone&#8217;s attempt to change the Bill, said the &#8220;establishment&#8221; parties &#8220;do not want the British people to have a say on whether to stay in or move out of the European Union&#8221;.</p>
<p>Tory Philip Hollobone said people were &#8220;fed up&#8221; with a Europe which left &#8220;all and sundry&#8221; from EU member states free to come to the UK, but Labour MP John Mann said the Tories were split between the &#8220;little Britainers&#8221; and MPs who realised the demands of big business and supported further European integration.</p>
<p>Europe Minister David Liddington told MPs the Government did not support Mr Bone&#8217;s call. He told him: &#8220;I do not think this new clause adds to the safeguards we have already provided.&#8221;</p>
<p>The vote marked the end of the Bill&#8217;s committee stage and it will come back to the Commons for report stage and third reading at a later date.</p>
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