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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 19 Sep 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"My Lords, it is not easy to be speaker 108, but it is presumably even harder to be speaker 168. As a relatively new Member of your Lordships’ House, for me, last week’s debate was a privilege: arguments about choice, autonomy and the sanctity of life, leavened throughout by extraordinarily …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Global Plastic Pollution Treaty

"I thank my noble friend the Minister for her Answer. As she says, in light of the rejection of any limits on plastic production by Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran and the United States at the recent intergovernmental negotiating committee, will the Government, along with other high-ambition countries, consider moving from …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Global Plastic Pollution Treaty

"To ask His Majesty’s Government how they are supporting progress on the global plastic pollution treaty...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 01 Sep 2025
Middle East

"My Lords, I would like to follow the remark just made by my noble friend about the lessons from southern Africa; I would not presume to be any more expert than he is on that matter. Of course there was a place for promoting reconciliation and dialogue, but there was …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2025
State of Climate and Nature

"My Lords, the debate we have had on the Statement illustrates the value of maintaining the cross-party consensus that we have had on this subject to date. I was going to ask my noble friend the question that the Opposition have asked about maintaining public engagement in this debate, so …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 15 Jul 2025
United Kingdom: Soft Power

"My Lords, I declare my interest as the vice-chair of the British Council. As has been acknowledged, the British Council is a vital soft power interest for the United Kingdom. I ask my noble friend the Minister to confirm that his department is now actively engaged in how to alleviate …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Unpaid Tax

"I thank the Minister for his Answer. He will be aware that in May the National Audit Office reported on collecting the right tax from wealthy individuals. It noted that

“underlying levels of non-compliance among the wealthy … could be much greater”

than anticipated and that, based on the most …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Unpaid Tax

"To ask His Majesty’s Government how much tax they estimate is unpaid each year, and what steps they are taking in response...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 04 Jul 2025
UK Constitution: Oversight and Responsibility (Report from the Constitution Committee)

"My Lords, like my noble friend Lord Pitkeathley, I rise to speak not as a lawyer, a judge or a senior Whitehall insider—I cannot bring the insider wisdom that we have heard so much of this morning—but as a constitutional reformer whose experience has largely been of operating outside, at …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 20 May 2025
Healthy Life Expectancy

"I thank my noble friend for her Answer. She may be aware that, this morning, the Health Foundation published a new international benchmarking report. It highlights that, in the 2010s, in all parts of the UK outside London, mortality rates increasingly lagged behind progress in the other 21 countries in …..."
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