Supreme Court: President Debate

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Supreme Court: President

Lord Cormack Excerpts
Wednesday 16th November 2011

(13 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord McNally Portrait Lord McNally
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I think that is what I indicated in my earlier reply.

Lord Cormack Portrait Lord Cormack
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My Lords, is it not comforting that one of the latest appointments to the Supreme Court has written a definitive history of the Hundred Years’ War?

Lord McNally Portrait Lord McNally
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Indeed. I always go along with the dictum of Denis Healey—the noble Lord, Lord Healey—that you should look for people with hinterland.