Debates between Baroness Laing of Elderslie and Angela Eagle during the 2015-2017 Parliament

Enterprise Bill [Lords]

Debate between Baroness Laing of Elderslie and Angela Eagle
Tuesday 2nd February 2016

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Angela Eagle Portrait Ms Angela Eagle
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On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister is spending time talking about provisions that no one but her has seen, because they are not in the Bill. How can that be in order?

Baroness Laing of Elderslie Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Mrs Eleanor Laing)
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The Minister can choose what she wants to talk about as long as it is related to the Bill. When it is not related to the Bill, I will stop her.

Trade Union Bill

Debate between Baroness Laing of Elderslie and Angela Eagle
Monday 14th September 2015

(9 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Angela Eagle Portrait Ms Eagle
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Madam Deputy Speaker—[Interruption.]

Angela Eagle Portrait Ms Eagle
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We will have to have a chat about whether the Labour party should organise in Northern Ireland. It is a long-standing issue within our party. I would be more than happy to talk to the hon. Lady about that, but I suspect Madam Deputy Speaker would stop me from doing so over the Dispatch Box.

We all know that this Government—barely with a majority—increasingly behave in a grossly partisan way, whether it is through individual electoral registration designed to disfranchise voters, by introducing English votes for English laws, or now by making changes to party funding to try to hobble the main Opposition.