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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 29 Nov 2022
Net Migration

"My Lords, should we not recognise that the people who pay thousands of pounds to people to carry them across the channel actually want to come here? They find coming here beneficial, and the economy finds it beneficial when they come. Why do we not have a system in which …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 27 Oct 2022
50th Anniversary of the Expulsion of Asians from Uganda

"My Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Popat, who is a friend, for introducing this debate. I did not speak in any earlier debate; I waited until the 50th anniversary because I knew something good would have happened by then, and it has. Let me say a few …..."
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Written Question
European Arrest Warrants: Republic of Ireland
Tuesday 25th October 2022

Asked by: Lord Desai (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to resolve the discrimination identified in the High Court case Minister for Justice and Equality v Harrison [2020] IEHC 29.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)

The judgement in this case relating to the extradition of an individual was issued by the High Court in Ireland and it is not for the Government to comment.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 05 Jan 2022
Nationality and Borders Bill

"My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, who has done so much in this cause. There is nothing good that one can say about this Bill: let me say that to begin with. I will make two points, first on the idea that British citizenship is …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 25 Nov 2021
Migrants

"My Lords, here is a puzzle. Around 56 years ago, I came here, not in a boat, and not as a refugee. I had a job and a labour permit to be here. There has been nothing but constant complaints about immigration since—Powell and all that sort of stuff—but at …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 07 Dec 2017
Islam: Tenets

"My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Patten, who has always been a thoughtful Member of your Lordships’ House. I also congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Pearson, on introducing this topic. We have sat next to each other for many years and of course we …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 10 Jul 2017
Security in the UK

"My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord because we entered this House together some 26 years ago. I shall touch in my speech on some of the things he has said. I should start by saying that I have absolutely no practical knowledge of anything that …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 10 Jul 2017
Security in the UK

"I thank the noble Lord for that. I had not even come to the 21st century, but I quite agree. It is true is that there are battles within Islam, between Sunni and Shia, that have been going on for quite a while, and that is part of the Qatar-Saudi …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 14 Jan 2016
Identity Documentation

"My Lords, I, too, thank my noble friend Lord Campbell-Savours for introducing this debate. I always thought that it was a great pity that the last attempt by the Labour Government to have identity cards was abandoned on the grounds of research by, I am ashamed to say, the LSE …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 14 Jan 2016
Identity Documentation

"Does the noble Lord not think that India is a democracy? Does it not have a written constitution? It has an identity card: 900 million people have such cards...."
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