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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

"My Lords, to understand a nation and its people, you need a feel for the inner bundle of practices, characteristics and states of mind that create the image that a country carries of itself, which in turn shapes the way that others see it. For those of us fortunate enough …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 20 Jul 2023
Lord Chancellor and Law Officers (Constitution Committee Report)

"My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their welcome back; it is an undiluted pleasure to be with you all again. It is funny what one misses. There is serious business, of course, but being a Member of this House is the most agreeable form of adult education the world …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 20 Jan 2023
The Union (Constitution Committee Report)

"My Lords, it is a great honour to follow a fellow historian, the noble Lord, Lord Verdirame, to welcome him to your Lordships’ House and to praise his lustrous maiden speech. His learning, experience and scholarship take him deep into one of the crucial, perpetual questions of our time: the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 16 Dec 2022
Cabinet Manual: Revision (Constitution Committee Report)

"My Lords, I declare my membership of your Lordships’ Constitution Committee. In addition, I must declare an eccentricity, for I am one of a tiny number of people in the kingdom who experience a spasm of excitement when I hear the words Cabinet Manual. I do not wish to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 05 Mar 2020
BBC and Public Service Broadcasting

"My Lords, I declare a pair of interests. First, since the early 1980s I have made a number of programmes, mainly for BBC Radios 3 and 4, working with as gifted a set of producers as any broadcaster could wish for. Secondly, the BBC has escorted me through my entire …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 08 Jan 2020
Queen’s Speech

"My Lords, to borrow a line from PG Wodehouse, it is always easy to distinguish between a ray of sunshine and the imminent return of the European Union withdrawal Bill. Yet fuelled by a wish to find reasons to be cheerful, including real possibilities on the constitutional front, perhaps I …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 21 May 2019
UK Foreign Policy in a Shifting World Order (International Relations Committee Report)

"My Lords, last month, I learned what was for me a new concept when for the first time scientists managed to photograph the rim of a black hole. The astrophysicists called it an “event horizon”—an interesting term.

Thinking about today’s hugely timely debate, it occurred to me that that is …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 25 Mar 2019
Brexit

"My Lords, I am rendered almost speechless, but I shall try. I have no desire to add to the reservoir of recrimination into which so many words have been poured because of Brexit. But, despite the kind words of my noble friend Lord Foulkes and my cherished former research student, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 09 Jan 2019
Brexit: Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration

"My Lords, in a celebrated article in the Times to mark the unveiling of a statue of the great Benjamin Disraeli in Parliament Square on the second anniversary of his death, the leader writer penned a sentence that has resonated ever since:

“In the inarticulate mass of the British populace …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 18 Dec 2018
Modernising Defence Programme

"In the noble Earl’s judgment, what above all in this defence review distinguishes it from its 13 predecessors since 1945? As a footnote, I am greatly interested in the new tauter approach to strategic policy-making, with the new net assessment unit. To enable your Lordships to test the quality of …..."
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