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HANSARDTrade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026My Lords, I support the regret amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe. The strength of this country over the past 20 or 30 years has been in its very flexible labour…22 Jul 2026HANSARDGovernment Record on Education, Employment and WelfareMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Evans, for securing this debate and for her excellent opening speech. Britain’s economic problems did not begin with this…16 Jul 2026HANSARDContemporary Cultural BoycottsMy Lord, in his great essay The Prevention of Literature , George Orwell wrote: “imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity”. I think this is a little…09 Jul 2026HANSARDNature’s Rights Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, for bringing forward this Bill. It is an extremely interesting Bill, well worthy of debate. It is good to have a Bill that…03 Jul 2026HANSARDPolitical Party Finance and the Electoral CommissionMy Lords, it is very good that we are having this discussion today; I want to raise two issues. The first is the role of the Electoral Commission and the second is the composition…02 Jul 2026HANSARDDemocratic Institutions: ThreatsMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, for enabling this debate because it gives us an opportunity to puncture the hysteria and moral panic that seem to have…25 Jun 2026HANSARDCarbon Budget Order 2026My Lords, I declare an interest as an unpaid director of the company Net Zero Watch. It was 10 years ago today that we had the referendum that decided whether we would be governed…23 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillMy Lords, I congratulate the Minister on his promotion and thank him for his very clear opening statement. The problem we have today is that we are looking at a Bill that is…16 Jun 2026HANSARDTeachers’ Pension Scheme: Automatic EnrolmentMy Lords, is not one of the reasons why these pension schemes impose such financial burden on universities that they are extremely generous? If effort were to be put into…15 Jun 2026HANSARDEcodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Household Tumble Dryers) Regulations 2026The Minister has said several times that this legislation is justified on the grounds of simplicity and avoiding two different regimes. Could he therefore explain why the EU…09 Jun 2026HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Impact on Human Relationships and SocietyMy Lords, I thank the most reverend Primate for her excellent opening speech in this debate, which admirably set out the issues that I think ought to be concerning us. AI is…05 Jun 2026HANSARDUK Electricity PricesMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Lilley, but also a problem, as he has said almost everything that needs to be said on this subject already, and in a…04 Jun 2026HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, I am delighted to speak in today’s debate on the humble Address. As noble Lords will probably expect, I plan to focus on European issues and, in particular, the sadly…14 May 2026HANSARDUK-India: Comprehensive Economic and Trade AgreementMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Johnson. I could not think of a single remark that I disagreed with, so maybe that should do, but I still have a few…04 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 135 and 436 in my name. These two amendments relate to one of the specific functions just elaborated by the noble Lord, Lord Moylan.…27 Feb 2026HANSARDResetting the UK-EU Relationship (European Affairs Committee Report)My Lords, as I follow the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, noble Lords will get an encapsulation of the difficulties that the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts, had in chairing our committee.…26 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I rise to introduce Amendment 84, which has already been touched on by the noble Lord, Lord Farmer. I am grateful to, and thank, the noble Lord, Lord Carter of…30 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am coming to my conclusion. It is somewhat safer with the two criteria of autonomy plus life expectancy and of unbearable and irremediable suffering. It limits the scope of the…30 Jan 2026HANSARDUK-EU Customs UnionMy Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Offord. As he says farewell to this Chamber, I congratulate him, on behalf of the whole House, on his forthright but…29 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill16 Jan 2026