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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Sep 2015
Middle East and North Africa

"My Lords, if one is setting off on a journey, it is a privilege to be sent off by a bishop. I thank the right reverend Prelate for the quality of his colourful send-off. I shall use his book Thomas Hobbes and the Limits of Democracy as a gazetteer for …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Sep 2015
Middle East and North Africa

"Will the Minister confirm an answer that was given this very day last week in response to a question about the number of further leave to remain refusals that have occurred to people formally granted temporary leave as children upon applying as adults? Those refusals rose from six in 2006 …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 15 Sep 2015
Northern Ireland: Political Developments

"My Lords, I share my noble friend Lord Empey’s appreciation of the position and comments of the noble Lord, Lord McAvoy. Have Her Majesty’s Government themselves reached the stage of having very different draft terms of reference for the possible substitute for the original Independent Monitoring Commission, and if so, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 11 Sep 2015
Council Tax Valuation Bands Bill [HL]

"My Lords, it is a pleasure and a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Desai, who speaks in the midst of a sea of Conservative Back-Benchers. It is not the first time that the noble Lord’s enthusiasm for the solitary has embraced me. During the 2001 general election, he …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 11 Sep 2015
Council Tax Valuation Bands Bill [HL]

"Only my father...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 08 Sep 2015
Higher Education: Part-time and Mature Students

"My Lords, can my noble friend remind me which Government were in power in 2008?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 08 Sep 2015
Northern Ireland: Political Situation

"My Lords, in the penultimate sentence of the Statement there is a reference to “few short weeks”, and the Minister has amplified that by saying three or four weeks. Pursuant to that, the noble Lord, Lord Reid, came back to the subject of time. Given the scale of the agenda …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 15 Jul 2015
Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I rise expressing extreme sympathy for the enthusiasm which it is possible to develop for politics at a very early age but which does not lead me to be in support of the amendment. I was one year old at the general election of 1935. I therefore had …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 15 Jul 2015
Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL]

"The noble Lord’s intervention is most gracious; if he will forgive me, I am coming towards that end. Between 1945 and 1950, no by-elections were won by the Opposition party, yet in the LCC elections in 1949, my late noble kinsman led the Conservative Party to an absolute dead-heat—that was …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 15 Jul 2015
Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL]

"I realise that the drafting of the amendment is not the noble Lord’s, but in proposed new subsection (9), to which he referred a moment ago, it might be sensible if the penultimate word in the penultimate line was struck out at this juncture, as, at the moment, it constitutes …..."
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