Liaison Committee Report
Debate between Lord Pearson of Rannoch and Earl of Erroll
Lord Pearson of Rannoch (UKIP)
My Lords, perhaps I may support what the noble Lord has just said and go a little further. Given that these committees are perhaps your Lordships’ House’s most valuable contribution to life in modern Britain, it is disappointing to see that we can afford to have only three of them. Following what the noble Lord, Lord Jopling, has just said, dare we hope that if Brexit ever happens we will no longer need seven EU committees? As noble Lords know, I regard them as largely a waste of time anyway, because Brussels has never listened to anything that they have put forward.
The Earl of Erroll (CB)
My Lords, before everyone gets carried away about ID cards, perhaps we should remember why we burnt them a few years after the Second World War.