Debates between Lord Lipsey and Viscount Hailsham during the 2017-2019 Parliament

Wed 10th Jan 2018
Data Protection Bill [HL]
Lords Chamber

Report: 3rd sitting Hansard: House of Lords

Data Protection Bill [HL]

Debate between Lord Lipsey and Viscount Hailsham
Viscount Hailsham Portrait Viscount Hailsham
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That may be so, but Parliament makes errors, and this House is in the business of looking again at what we have done in the past. We have to ask ourselves: what is just and equitable in the context of this case? I therefore very much hope that we will not approve a new inquiry and that the proposed new clause so eloquently moved by my mentor will fail.

Lord Lipsey Portrait Lord Lipsey (Non-Afl)
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My Lords, I am one of those who backed the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Hollins, and I want to intervene briefly to make a point about the beast with which we are dealing. I refer noble Lords to the piece in today’s Times—a newspaper at which, incidentally, 25 years ago I was deputy to the editor. The headline reads:

“Peers hijack data bill to attack free press through back door”.


In today’s Times, evidently, the facts are free but comment is sacred.