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HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I want to speak briefly to the amendment that my noble friend Lord Attlee spent about 15 seconds talking about; that is, his Amendment 414. At the outset of his remarks,…15 Jan 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I intervene briefly because the noble Lords, Lord Anderson and Lord Clement-Jones, have set out with great clarity the thinking behind their two amendments, and I am…15 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I am diffidently following the noble and learned Baroness, with her experience both as a legislator and as a very senior judge. I am very pleased she intervened when she…09 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am very grateful to the noble and learned Baroness for her approbation of what I just said. My final point concerns what happens if there is a lack of High Court judges in the…09 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI hope that the noble and learned Lord gets an opportunity to reply to this debate, but I wondered whether I could ask what is perhaps the daft laddie question. Is he, or are the…08 Jan 2026HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, my noble friend Lord Hailsham’s second point illustrates his first point: if there is no purposeful activity available, how can one enforce the denial of an early…06 Jan 2026HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, before the Minister gets to his feet, can I rather impertinently squeeze in a request that probably has little to do with Amendment 68? I am doing it now, so there we…06 Jan 2026HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas, set out with great clarity the cogency of his proposed new clause. I entirely support it and, if he wishes to test the opinion…06 Jan 2026HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, in the spirit of friendship, I acknowledge the charming but highly persuasive way in which my noble friend advanced her amendment, which I am only too pleased to…06 Jan 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I do not wish to criticise the Minister’s intentions and motives, but what he has just said is reminiscent of what I have heard on previous occasions from Ministers of…17 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, we have heard some jolly clever speeches. It seems to me that the general point of this group of amendments, and indeed the previous one, is to bring this matter of…17 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, the wording and effect of Amendment 347, which I co-signed, are self-explanatory, but, if the amendment needed any further elaboration, the noble Lord, Lord Marks of…17 Dec 2025HANSARDJimmy Lai ConvictionMy Lords, I appreciate that we are no longer the superpower that we used to be, but none the less if we were to speak firmly to the Government of China, it would be…17 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThat is a logical fallacy.17 Dec 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts BillMy Lords, I am delighted to see the noble Baroness, Lady Griffin, in her place, and I wish her a very speedy recovery. I also congratulate her on her precision and the brevity of…16 Dec 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts BillI was only going to support the Minister. One of the differences between an appeal by a defendant in a criminal matter and the unduly lenient sentencing system is that anybody can…16 Dec 2025HANSARDUS National Security StrategyMy Lords, what work are the Government doing with the United States to secure the freedom of Jimmy Lai?16 Dec 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts BillSo does my noble and learned friend; that is a free drink that he is not going to get. Unusually for a modern criminal justice Bill, which was ably introduced by the Minister,…16 Dec 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts BillMy Lords—16 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, just to demonstrate the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Hampton, this is a cross-party matter and he has my support. I would be interested—he may or may not know—in…15 Dec 2025