"My Lords, I will make two very short points. First, the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, knows the respect in which I hold him, but it is a subtle piece of advocacy to say that the hereditaries sit here purely because of the family they were born into, to use the …..." Lord Wolfson of Tredegar - View Speech
"My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, although he will appreciate that I take a very different position in responding to this interesting and important debate.
"I have. Sir Christopher Greenwood made the point that we have legal risk. He is absolutely right: there is legal risk. But I am suggesting that we need to analyse that legal risk carefully.
"I am going to deal with the legal issues affecting this because the Government are saying to us, “We have no choice: we have to sign this because we have legal risk”. There is no point the noble Lord muttering from a sedentary position...." Lord Wolfson of Tredegar - View Speech
"I will finish the point and give way. This Government are trying to dress up a political decision as a legal decision. Now, of course, I am happy to give way...." Lord Wolfson of Tredegar - View Speech
"The point I have made about Article 4 is absolutely right. Mauritius can take measures in response.
I will wrap up because of the time. My noble friend Lord Callanan reminded us of the price we will have to pay for this legal farrago. Thanks to the approach taken by …..." Lord Wolfson of Tredegar - View Speech
"I have; I read absolutely what Sir Christopher said about Article 4, but it did not find his way into the final report...." Lord Wolfson of Tredegar - View Speech
"My Lords, public subsidy extends beyond public arts venues. Indeed, at the height of the Covid pandemic, £900,000 of public money was paid to support Glastonbury. In that context, does the Minister agree with me that the scenes that we saw from Glastonbury this weekend were absolutely disgraceful? Does she …..." Lord Wolfson of Tredegar - View Speech
"My Lords, I will be brief, because this is in fact Report, although sometimes it has not quite seemed that way.
The point in this amendment appears to me to be short, focused and unanswerable. What is the question that we are trying to answer? Why are we building this …..." Lord Wolfson of Tredegar - View Speech