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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 07 May 2025
Antisemitism on University Campuses

"My Lords, first we should ask, what are the universities doing?

Amid the deeply concerning increase in incidents of antisemitism on university campuses, what I have found perhaps most shocking are the reports of antisemitic behaviour by academics. The Community Security Trust reports academics as well as students with “limited” …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 13 Sep 2024
Sudan

"My Lords, yet again the western world allows itself to drift in ignorance and indifference as a vast human tragedy unfolds in Africa. There is intense interest and emotional absorption among the peoples of the West in Gaza and, to a lesser extent, in Ukraine. If such can be measured, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 12 Sep 2024
Higher Education Funding

"My Lords, the Government are readying us for grim times ahead, though my noble friend the Minister remains genial and I am so glad to see her in her place.

I gently submit that we cannot afford not to refund our universities. It was an extraordinary dereliction on the part …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 04 Sep 2024
Holocaust Memorial Bill

"My Lords, the planning committee of Westminster City Council had good reasons for rejecting the then Government’s application to site a Holocaust memorial and learning centre in Victoria Tower Gardens. Among its concerns were the damaging impact on the amenity and beauty of the park, so precious for local residents …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 22 Jul 2024
King’s Speech (4th Day)

"My Lords, there is both the need and the opportunity for the new Government to be radical. We have to address poor productivity, low growth, regional and social inequality, shocking levels of poverty, collapsing public services and environmental degradation. We are told that the fiscal vice is so tight that …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 02 May 2024
EU Imports and Exports: Food and Agricultural Products

"My Lords, this is a wretched affair and, I will argue, an unnecessary one. A mass of our businesses are unable to plan because they simply do not know what the compliance requirements or timescale of the new system of import controls will be. They know only that the bureaucratic …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Higher Education

"My Lords, Britain’s universities remain a jewel in our crown. It is enormously to the credit of academics that it is so, considering the headwinds against which they are struggling. They have been casualties of the Government’s chronic mismanagement of the economy, as well as their peculiar unwillingness to invest …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Arts

"My Lords, I declare my interests as chair of the National Centre for Creative Health—a charity independent of government —and as co-chair of the All-Party Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing.

Since the APPG published its report, Creative Health, in 2017, the term “creative health” has become increasingly familiar …..."

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

"My Lords, the Bill exhibits several characteristics of this Government. Exhibit A is their contempt for the courts, the rule of law and the constitution. They are smarting at the judgment of the Supreme Court, which found conclusive factual evidence that Rwanda was not a safe place to send asylum …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Parliamentary Democracy and Standards in Public Life

"My Lords, in 2019, when Parliament was certainly not at its best, the think tank Onward found that two-thirds of younger voters were in favour of a strong man leader prepared to defy Parliament. We had a leader, Boris Johnson, who flagrantly broke the rules and lied. The Hallett inquiry …..."
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