Video: Watch live: EU referendum debate Bringing forward the Private Member's Bill, the backbench MP for Stockton South, said: "It is an honour for me to put forward a Bill that at its heart, the heart of our democracy - that powers should reside with the people." How things have changed? Politics has moved on and the European Union has moved on. Prime Minister David Cameron was on the front bench along with Chancellor George Osborne and other Cabinet ministers including Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and Justice Secretary Chris Grayling stood at the entrance to the chamber. More than 150 Tory MPs were in the Commons, along with more than 40 Labour MPs.