"I thank my noble friend for her Answer. Could she say what we will be looking at in particular around the rights of women and their needs?..." Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town - View Speech
"My Lords, I strongly welcome the report. I congratulate my noble friend and her colleagues on producing a unanimous, thoughtful and forward-looking report, which I hope we can, in effect, endorse today and, in due course, adopt its recommendations.
"I am slightly surprised to hear this from the party opposite, which went through rather a lot of Prime Ministers. Somehow I do not remember that party calling the manifesto discredited at that stage...." Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town - View Speech
"My Lords, I want to make one rather simple point about the Bill: we should keep big money out of politics. Over the weekend, we learned of the formerly Thailand-based Christopher Harborne’s £36 million, plus another £36 million from the late-of-Hong Kong Ben Delo, a man convicted over AML but …..." Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town - View Speech
"My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Pack, is too nice to have gone through everything that the Tories did without involving us, but one of the things they did was to bring in the requirement for ID for people casting a vote. However, those people living abroad, although they extended …..." Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town - View Speech
"My Lords, unfortunately, at the moment, progress has almost flatlined—I think it will take 38 years to get to the 2030 target. My noble friend said to me on 9 June that the Government have not set milestones. If there are not such milestones as those just referred to, how …..." Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town - View Speech
"The issue is whether we want greater trust in democracy. That is what the Bill is about. The idea that we start putting technical and administrative difficulties—..." Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town - View Speech
"My Lords, I do not know what flatters me most. I think it is the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, moving from Madonna to myself—which I think is the biggest vote of confidence I have ever had from anyone.
"I disagreed with what the noble Baroness was saying yesterday, but we do not need to go into the details of that. The point I am trying to make is that the Bill is about the core issue of enhancing trust in democracy, rather than constantly being concerned with how …..." Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town - View Speech