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Lords Chamber
United Kingdom: Union - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Our Britishness is about much more than the passport we hold. - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) It was not a union of monarchies. The union of the monarchy had happened 100 years earlier. - Speech Link
3: Lord Godson (Con - Life peer) present security arrangements on the island of Ireland, on both sides of the border, now pose a wider - Speech Link
4: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) address that, I suggest that one step we should take is the abolition of the Sewel convention and the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con - Life peer) It is set in the future, looking back to a Brexit referendum—and this is the uncanny thing. - Speech Link
2: Lord Dannatt (XB - Life peer) Alderton to ensure a smooth succession within our monarchy. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Mobarik (Con - Life peer) who fought and died for the privileges we hold most dear: freedom of speech, freedom of movement, a - Speech Link
4: Baroness Foster of Oxton (Con - Life peer) A sleeper in Frankfurt airport placed a bomb in the hold of a 707. - Speech Link
5: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) We have had the flawed abolition of DfID with the global reputation that it had. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Bishops in the House of Lords - Thu 06 Jul 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Tommy Sheppard (SNP - Edinburgh East) I think it was 113 years ago that the Labour party committed to the abolition of the House of Lords. - Speech Link
2: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) to the referendum on Scottish independence, on which the bishops of the Church of England had more of - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) reform of the Lords, that we hold the individuals concerned in the highest regard; nothing we say is - Speech Link
4: Alex Burghart (CON - Brentwood and Ongar) a referendum of the people of this country? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom: The Union - Thu 23 Jun 2022
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Strathclyde (CON - Excepted Hereditary) so recently pledged itself to having a referendum in the next 12 months.I will concentrate on Scotland - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) North Yorkshire by the abolition of district councils and the imposition of a single council, which - Speech Link
3: Lord Norton of Louth (CON - Life peer) A clear example of this was seen during the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) The current point of tension regarding the Scottish Government’s intention to hold a second referendum - Speech Link
5: Lord Greenhalgh (CON - Life peer) He raised two important issues in a succinct contribution: the role of the monarchy in holding the union - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
2nd reading - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Grocott (LAB - Life peer) with a House of Commons resolution and advises her to hold one. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Leicester (CON - Excepted Hereditary) He defended common law against the divine right of the monarchy. - Speech Link
3: Lord Rennard (LDEM - Life peer) Perhaps it might have been possible for people in Britain to be offered the choice in a referendum of - Speech Link
4: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) The time of both Parliament and the country as a whole was wasted on a referendum on the alternative - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 11 May 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Theresa May (CON - Maidenhead) : the abolition of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. - Speech Link
2: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) be no legitimate justification on which to resist a referendum. - Speech Link
3: David Mundell (CON - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) The SNP has no moral authority to hold a second referendum. - Speech Link
4: David Mundell (CON - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) a real alternative focused on the priorities of the people of Scotland, rather than a divisive referendum - Speech Link
5: Angus Brendan MacNeil (SNP - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) Incidentally, my mother believed in an Irish republic, a British monarchy, and an independent Scotland - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
European Union (Future Relationship) Bill
3rd reading - Wed 30 Dec 2020
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (CON - Life peer) carried out on behalf of the whole House since the referendum. - Speech Link
2: Lord Newby (LDEM - Life peer) Minister decided to hold a referendum to manage splits in his own party. - Speech Link
3: Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (LAB - Life peer) That referendum was won not by the slim majority of the 2016 referendum, but by a margin of two to one - Speech Link
4: Lord Framlingham (CON - Life peer) inventiveness, our industry and our monarchy. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hogan-Howe (CB - Life peer) Government in delivering on the outcome of the 2016 referendum. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Britain in the World - Mon 13 Jan 2020
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) by the end of 2020—a new relationship that honours the will of the people in the 2016 referendum but - Speech Link
2: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) That will give us a powerful new tool to hold the perpetrators of the worst human rights abuses to account - Speech Link
3: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) How will the UK be able to hold Turkey to account on its treatment, for example, of the Kurdish and Alevi - Speech Link
4: Andrew Rosindell (CON - Romford) The English language is the language of the world, and our historic institutions, such as the monarchy - Speech Link
5: Rob Roberts (IND - Delyn) to learn Welsh, a skill that I hold as one of my most valuable assets. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL]
Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard): House of Lords - Fri 07 Sep 2018
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) to reconcile it with the undertakings given at the time of the abolition Bill. - Speech Link
2: None at stake here is the survival of the Monarchy”. - Speech Link
3: Lord Desai (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We would have long ago been destroyed like the French monarchy was destroyed. - Speech Link
4: Lord Grocott (LAB - Life peer) The Bill is the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill. - Speech Link
5: Lord Grocott (LAB - Life peer) the result of the referendum. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Claim of Right for Scotland - Wed 04 Jul 2018
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) :“The Scottish Parliament should have the right to hold another referendum...if there is a significant - Speech Link
2: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) elected Parliament’s decision to hold a referendumthe most direct form of democracy imaginable—must - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kerr (CON - Stirling) comes from the works of George Buchanan on contractual monarchy. - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) got a mandate to hold a referendum, given the material change in circumstances. - Speech Link
5: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) a section 30 order to hold another independence referendum. - Speech Link