The last thing I saw before penning this blog was a rather downbeat commentary on Britain’s influence in the European Union. 

A House of Lords EU Committee report said the UK risks punching below its weight in Brussels. But it doesn’t look like that to me.

With a new European Commission pursuing a far more positive agenda than its predecessors, and some important policy wins chalked up on the National Association of Pension Funds' scoreboard, my view is we are doing better in Brussels than we have for many years. 

But their Lordships’ charge is a serious one. Even if their critique is off-target it’s no bad thing to be challenged – are we really as well represented in the EU’s corridors of power as we might be? 

And even if we think we are, have we got the foundations in place to keep those links strong in the future? 

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