i remember when william hague was the prime minister —— when william hague was the party leader. reg prentice in london who fell out with his local party in london and he argued his position was undermined because activists wanted to constrain his ability to make the case and make the arguments. in the end, he left labour and joined the conservative party because he felt it was more tolerant. is there a danger that this campaign you will repeat the mistake that labour made in the early 80s when it tried to mandate its members of parliament and prevented them from exercising theirjudgment? no, i believe in representative democracy, i believe the member of parliament goes to parliament and exercises his own judgment but there is one ramification to that and that is when it comes to determining the way in which we are governed and when determining the way in which we are governed, then it is the sovereignty of the people that matters in this whole issue of europe is about the sovereignty of the people determining how they are governed and how democracy works in the united kingdom an