The Telegraph reports: "William Hague has made a defiant defence of the coalition's plans to ensure Britain retains parliamentary sovereignty over new laws passed by the European Union ahead of a Commons showdown this week."
Bill Cash, was quoted saying that the vote represented a "critical test of parliamentary sovereignty."
The Telegraph notes that "He and his fellow rebels protest that plans which are meant to ensure that the public has the final say over proposed transfers of powers to Brussels – through referendums – in fact make the current position worse because it would be the courts that would have the final say over ministers' decisions on whether to hold a public vote." Bill Cash has stressed that "This would not be a massive advance for national democracy. It would be a massive reverse."
