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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to my noble friend Lady Lister for Amendment 37, and for being able to listen again to the noble Lords, Lord German and Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, speak in support of…05 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe argument I put is that the person will have been given every opportunity to show that their pre-settled status was granted correctly. If there was an error from the Home…05 Nov 2025HANSARDElon MuskI am grateful to my noble friend for his question. As with the noble Baroness’s question on Muslim women earlier, it is absolutely important that people are not attacked for a…04 Nov 2025HANSARDHuntingdon Train AttackOn what happened in Cambridgeshire and the DLR, that will be the subject of an internal inquiry by Cambridgeshire Constabulary. It will reflect on that, and I suspect it will…04 Nov 2025HANSARDHuntingdon Train AttackI am grateful to the right reverend Prelate. A number of us in this House spend lots of time on trains. He makes a very interesting point about the distance between stops. On the…04 Nov 2025HANSARDElon MuskLet me find the actual comment, if I may. Does the noble Lord then agree with the following comment from Elon Musk, which he portrayed down the television line to the rally?…04 Nov 2025HANSARDElon MuskFreedom of speech is a vital democratic right, but it is not without its limits. Elon Musk’s remarks, particularly those which appeared to suggest that the public resort to…04 Nov 2025HANSARDElon MuskI am grateful to the noble Baroness. The Government care about the safety of all women, and that is why we are putting in place a strategy to tackle violence against women and…04 Nov 2025HANSARDHuntingdon Train AttackI am grateful to the noble Earl for that contribution. It is slightly off the topic we are talking about today, but it is important that we focus on the issue of halving knife…04 Nov 2025HANSARDElon MuskThe Government can look at any time at contract issues, but I would not wish to equate Mr Musk and his comments, which I also find reprehensible, with doing business—that is an…04 Nov 2025HANSARDElon MuskAbsolutely. The Britain I know is tolerant, understands different religions and different cultures, respects and celebrates those different cultures, and supports a multicultural…04 Nov 2025HANSARDElon MuskI fear that I will be a star of Twitter, or X, before the evening is finished; I will probably be retweeted to thousands of people who will take a different view from me. I stand…04 Nov 2025HANSARDHuntingdon Train AttackI am grateful to my noble friend. I know that he spent time in a Stockport signal box in a previous life, and he is right to pay tribute to the signallers who helped with the…04 Nov 2025HANSARDElon MuskI am grateful to my noble friend; personally, I just ignore Elon Musk. We had an election, and we had 400-plus Labour Members of Parliament elected. I stand here because the…04 Nov 2025HANSARDElon MuskI would certainly welcome much silence from Mr Musk, but, again, I would defend his right to have his opinion; I just do not agree with it. It is not for somebody in his position…04 Nov 2025HANSARDHuntingdon Train AttackI am grateful to His Majesty’s loyal Opposition and to the Liberal Democrat Benches for their contributions this evening. I give a broad welcome to their comments on the work of…04 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to my noble friend Lady Lister for her Amendment 57, and to the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, for her Amendment 27, which has stimulated a discussion. I am grateful…03 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, for her amendments and how she presented them. She said that she was trying to be helpful and supportive on these…03 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillLet me say it again and see whether I can help my noble friend: the Government have accepted all eight recommendations. That is clear. We have accepted all the recommendations…03 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Cameron and Lord Jackson of Peterborough, for tabling the amendments, because they have, self-evidently, generated a good discussion on some…03 Nov 2025