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HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, what a privilege to follow the fourth of those four outstanding maiden speeches. I reassure the noble Baroness, Lady Hazarika, that I echo her sense that the humanity…27 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsMy Lords, I return to the question of the noble Lord, Lord German, about employment rights. The ban on these migrants working dates, in its current form, from about 2002 and was…26 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, what a pleasure it is to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, and, indeed, one half of our Green Party. The noble Baroness, Lady Jones, and I have known each other…25 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Peerage Nominations) Bill [HL]My Lords, when I was a Member of the European Parliament, I was canvassing one day, and I came across a man who had the simplest imaginable concern, which was to do with speed…14 Mar 2025HANSARDUnited Kingdom: Global PositionMy Lords, over the past two months, our world has tilted on its axis. A lot of our assumptions were overthrown and a lot of our “isms” are suddenly “wasms”. We were perhaps ready…13 Mar 2025HANSARDPrime Minister: Meeting with Prime Minister of CanadaMy Lords, since Mr Carney became leader of the Canadian Liberal Party, both of the main Canadian parties are now in favour of CANZUK—that is to say, closer links between Canada,…12 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I find myself questioning the premise on which this amendment rests, and indeed on which the Bill it is amending rests—namely, that there are too many of us here. It is…12 Mar 2025HANSARDCarbon Border TaxesMy Lords, to return to my noble friend Lord Fuller’s question, how is this different from a tariff? One effect of a tariff is that it results in the outsourcing of manufacturing.…12 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I do not want to detain your Lordships long. I feel that I also have to swim rather against the current, as my noble friend Lord Leigh of Hurley was doing. Is there not…10 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I feel I am again swimming against the current, but I am very much against having an age limit in this House. I feel it would leave us poorer, thinner and more meagre. I…10 Mar 2025HANSARDTariffs: Canada and MexicoMy Lords, to return to the Minister’s first Answer, of course I am sensible that there are things that you do not say in public, but I hope that in private His Majesty’s…04 Mar 2025HANSARDEuropean Union: Court of JusticeMy Lords, I wonder why any third country would sign a trade agreement with us as long as we have passed part of our regulation to the control of a body that is beyond us and may…26 Feb 2025HANSARDLondon Stock Exchange: Decline in UK FundsMy Lords, the chief beneficiary of the loss of business from London has been New York, where companies are not subject to stamp duty. Is the Minister’s department prepared to…13 Feb 2025HANSARDUK-EU RelationsMy Lords, I commend the noble Baroness for what she said both on the pan-Euro-Mediterranean customs deal and on the youth mobility scheme. She essentially said, “It’s not…13 Feb 2025HANSARDHealth ResearchMy Lords—12 Feb 2025HANSARDBelarus: ElectionsMy Lords, I thank the Minister for the way she summarised government policy. I think she said that she wants a free, democratic and independent Belarus. We can all agree that it…10 Feb 2025HANSARDEmbassy of China: Proposed New SiteMy Lords, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer came back from her recent visit to China, she boasted about having got £600 million of investment over 10 years. This is about what…29 Jan 2025HANSARDEU LawMy Lords, can the Minister tell the House which aspects of the reset will impact directly on our pursuit of a free trade agreement with the United States—a goal to which the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthMy Lords, there is a group of Melanesian islands where supplies were dropped during the Second World War. When the war ended and the soldiers departed, a cult grew up on these…23 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate Change: Support for FarmersMy Lords, there is a lamentable tendency in the debates of the nation—and even in the discourses of your Lordships’ House—to elide from food security to self-sufficiency. We heard…23 Jan 2025