Obama's victory and meeting with MPs and Lords

I guess there's scarcely a blogger out there today who's not commenting on Barack Obama's election victory. And what a victory speech! Also impressive was John McCain's concession speech, a model in graciousness, that losing candidates in many other parts of the world would do well to emulate.

Meanwhile, I spoke today to the all-party Europe group of MPs and Lords at Westminster. Support for the reform of the EU, as embodied in the Lisbon Treaty, remains strong there. The large majorities approving it in both the Commons and the Lords have been emulated in 24 other countries. The sole rejection has been Ireland. How that might be dealt with was the subject of my blog last Wednesday, 29 October.