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HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I feel in something of a time warp, because I opposed Clause 62 in Committee and tried to get it dropped, but I want to go back to the discussion we were having on…23 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords—23 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI was just going to ask a question, as others did. As we are passing law, is it not the case that—23 Jul 2025HANSARDEnterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025My Lords, this is not a media studies debate on proprietors and their influence over the press. This is about state ownership, which is what we voted on. It is not about whether…22 Jul 2025HANSARDOnline Communication Offence ArrestsMy Lords, I too congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Lebedev, on securing this short but crucial debate on free speech. Usually, when I talk about the concerns that my organisation,…17 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillThis is the final word. This is not a trade union rights Bill; this is the Employment Rights Bill. It is casually known as the workers’ rights Bill. There are millions of workers…16 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, Amendment 99 seeks to remove the restriction that only trade union representatives or a work colleague may accompany an employee to a disciplinary or grievance hearing.…16 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI think the Minister may have answered his own question there, because if the consultation was with trade unionists about whether there was any need for non-trade unionists to go…16 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I support all the amendments in this group, but especially Amendment 1. As we start Report, and the first of several groups focusing on zero-hours contracts—although I…14 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, in the evidence and analysis document that the Government very helpfully gave us last week, it notes that up to 1.3 million employees will get a new entitlement to…14 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillIn the Mirror newspaper last week, Clause 20 hit the headlines. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner claimed that reforms protecting employees from third party harassment would not…14 Jul 2025HANSARDHousing: National Tenant BodyI am not usually very keen on quangos, but at the heart of this is the issue of trust. Tenants feel as though they are getting mixed messages: when the Housing Ombudsman suggests…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, every time I speak after the noble Lord, Lord Deben, I feel as though I have taken on the headmaster. Having been admonished, I tread carefully. I have wanted to comment…08 Jul 2025HANSARDImprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL]04 Jul 2025HANSARDImprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL]My Lords, I apologise that I was unable to be with your Lordships at Second Reading, but I read the excellent contributions in Hansard . That, as well as listening today,…04 Jul 2025HANSARDImprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL]I am sorry. The status quo position is that, when Mr Thomas becomes well and stable in hospital, he will be returned to the prison as an IPP-er. That seems unconscionable. All…04 Jul 2025HANSARDImprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL]I want to say one thing. When people say that we do not want to give people false hope, the obvious thing is to do something real so that they have real hope. We do not have to…04 Jul 2025HANSARDImprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL]My Lords, I was slightly confused in the summation. The implication, if you were just listening in and did not know about this subject, is that, largely, people were given IPP…04 Jul 2025HANSARDTerrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025No, I do not mean Bobby Sands. That made me laugh. Bob Vylan was where I was going. What I mean is that there are these people, whose views I despise, who, once you start banning…03 Jul 2025HANSARDTerrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025My Lords, I am a little concerned about how the sides are being laid out in this discussion. I have some serious worries about proscribing Palestine Action and have a lot of…03 Jul 2025