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HANSARDElections BillThe noble Lord made such an important point about the need to move on, this being Report after a very extensive consideration of the Bill in Committee. There are crucial…06 Apr 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillAt end insert “and do propose Amendment 5B in lieu—04 Apr 2022HANSARDLive Facial Recognition: Police GuidanceMy Lords, I refer the House to my membership of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee, whose pertinent report of last week has been referred to. Given the intrusive nature and…04 Apr 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, while supporting a number of other Motions in this group, I beg to move Motion C1. The refugee convention is both a memorial to Hitler’s victims and an essential…04 Apr 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords and noble and learned Lords who spoke in such a vital debate. The House will forgive me for not waxing lyrical by way of summary—out of…04 Apr 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, as it is to add my name to this amendment also in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Woolley…23 Mar 2022HANSARDCovid-19: Vaccines and Further VariantsMy Lords, the Minister was so right to say that the best way to fight variants is to defeat the virus worldwide. I am grateful for what she said about donations but, in the scale…23 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond. I would have pre-empted him, but I am so glad that I did not. With respect, some noble Lords wrongly anticipated…23 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI take the noble Lord’s point, because there are all sorts of polls and this is in the Library briefing, but I can honestly say that I have debated this issue in the past with…23 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Lords, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, on the amendment, and the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, on moving it. As always, I thank my noble friend…23 Mar 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police: Strip-search of SchoolgirlMy Lords, I note that your Lordships are rightly concerned about data and evidence gathering, which we need to do in any problem-solving exercise. But as my noble friend Lady…22 Mar 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police: Strip-search of SchoolgirlThank you for that. If there are questions of discretion, there will be questions of abuse of power. What were the teachers doing when this happened? What instructions will be…22 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy noble friends, who have more experience of being selected to stand for elected office in the Labour Party are muttering that it is not—21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI am being told that it is an option. Perhaps my noble friends can speak of what they know and I do not.21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI should say, for the record, that I have never stood for election to a parish council or a PTA committee, let alone to high elected office. I should say that with some…21 Mar 2022HANSARDCommission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesMy Lords, I totally endorse the remarks of the noble Baroness—I was about to call her my noble friend, as she is my friend—Lady Warsi. It really is time that we all, on a…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillThe noble Lord made a thoroughly compelling speech, as did the noble Lord, Lord Willetts. As he is from my side, so to speak, I point out that I have a more fundamental objection…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way, because it is worth addressing this point. It came up earlier with her noble friend Lord Hayward, who said to me, “You collect…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillTo save multiple interventions on my noble friend, I just want to say this: it is all very well to say “Perhaps this will all be dealt with in regulations” so long as the…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillBefore the noble Lord sits down, I will ask a question specifically addressed to his amendment. By the way, I wholly commend the thrust of what he is trying to do with the…21 Mar 2022