A referendum on EU membership could have been justified because as a way of settling the issue because all the main parties backed staying in the bloc, a general election was not the way to settle the matter, he said.
“I leave you to judge whether this referendum was called on that basis, and some of you may think it was, others of you may think it was called as a means by which to facilitate effective party management or the crowding out of another political force,” he said.
“The former argument for a referendum is compelling, the latter argument less so.”
Tory sources have indicated that given the “pretty heavy legislative agenda” the whips “are not necessarily going to ask Tory MPs to vote on non-binding opposition motions”.
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