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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 Dec 2024
Respect Orders and Anti-social Behaviour

"My Lords—..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 Dec 2024
Respect Orders and Anti-social Behaviour

"Do the Government have under consideration non-crime hate incidents, which I understand the police find to be very difficult to adjudicate on and often very time-wasting?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 Dec 2024
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

"My Lords, how much does our membership of this assembly cost us annually?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 Dec 2024
Planning Reforms: Net-zero Carbon Emissions

"My Lords, what is the Government’s view of the World Climate Declaration, signed by some 2,000 scientists and professionals, who say that there is no climate emergency at all and that the pursuit of net zero is very damaging, particularly to the poorer countries of the planet?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 25 Jul 2024
King’s Speech

"My Lords, the King’s Speech told us that measures will be introduced to improve the safety and security of public venues and help keep the British people safe from terrorism. When we use the word “terrorism” nowadays, we usually mean Islamist terrorism. MI5 tells us that Islamist terrorism is now …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 15 May 2023
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

"My Lords, I ask noble Lords who support Amendment 2 how it is that they now wish to involve Parliament and our democracy in getting rid of these laws when they were perfectly happy to see them imposed in a wholly anti-democratic process. I describe it as such because all …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 15 May 2023
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

"My Lords, I am sure that the House will approve Amendment 2. I am not sure that the noble Baroness grasped the point I was trying to make, so, if I may, I will finish it.

I accept that the Government were in danger of biting off more than they …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 23 Feb 2023
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

"I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. Does he agree that all EU law was put into law without the consent of the British people and Parliament? That is the EU system, is it not: proposed in secret by the Commission, voted on in secret by COREPER …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 23 Feb 2023
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

"My Lords, does the noble Baroness agree that they are bad to the extent that they never went through the House of Commons, the House of Lords or any of our democratic procedures? This legislation was imposed on us by Brussels and there was nothing we could do about it, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Feb 2023
Police Misconduct Cases

"Do the Government agree that the chairmen and members of police misconduct panels should never be open to any suggestion of conflict of interest arising from their previous careers?..."
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