Brexit: Irish Border Debate

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Brexit: Irish Border

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Tuesday 5th December 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Evans of Bowes Park Portrait Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
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My Lords, this really is not acceptable. It is the turn of the Cross Benches, then we will hear from the Labour Benches—but one Member of the Labour Benches.

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Lord Tomlinson Portrait Lord Tomlinson
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My Lords—

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Oh!

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Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan
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Of course, the wording is very important, but I am very clear that alignment is not the same as having no diversity.

Lord Tomlinson Portrait Lord Tomlinson
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My Lords, does the Minister accept that nobody has asked him to give a “blow-by-blow account”, which is how he referred to the questions he had been asked? Noble Lords have asked him to give a straight explanation, first, of what went wrong and, secondly, of how the Government propose to rectify it.

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