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HANSARDCovid-19: Charitably Funded HospicesMy Lords, I declare my former interest as the chair of Hospice UK. Does my noble friend the Minister agree that, even in the crude terms of value for money, because of its…28 Oct 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Earl, Lord Kinnoull, and I congratulate him on his committee’s report. Like the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, with whose every…19 Oct 2020HANSARDRule of LawMy Lords, does my noble and learned friend simply not understand the damage done to our reputation for probity and respect for the rule of law by those five words uttered by his…10 Sept 2020HANSARDBrexitMy Lords, it is always something of a bittersweet pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, if only as a faint reminder of the long-ago days when we worked together in…19 Oct 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillWe can argue about whether it was the only reason. Of course other factors encouraged Franco-German reconciliation, but the peace of the western half of the continent was an…05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI am most grateful to my noble friend for giving way. I would be very interested to know how he reconciles what he has just said with the fact that when, for a few weeks earlier…05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillThe noble Lord did not say so; I entirely agree. However, it is very commonly said—and it is not true.05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillThe noble Lord is entitled to his view but I would not agree with him. That is the root cause of the difficulties that we have faced over the last three years. Parliament took a…05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillParliament passes laws initiated by government, and when Parliament passes, and indeed amends, those laws, it does not enter into the detailed prescription of government contained…05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI shall not give way on this any more. I want to move on to consider the Bill before your Lordships’ House today, on which we ought to focus our attention. The noble Lord, Lord…05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI do not disagree with the noble Lord. His intervention establishes that we have made some progress because, in common parlance, the European Union is frequently given the entire…05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillWith respect to my noble friend, I did not say that. I repeat what I said: peace in western Europe after the Second World War owed more to the Soviet Union than it did to the…05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillI can go a long way towards agreeing with the noble Lord, but that is a somewhat different matter from the role of the European Union.05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillMy Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Campbell, with whom I have had the pleasure of jousting over many decades. Occasionally I have even agreed with…05 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) BillWill the noble Baroness now answer the noble Lord’s question?05 Sept 2019HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMay I take my noble friend back to the example he gave from 2011, when the former Lord Chancellor, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, expressed outrage about the…04 Sept 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) BillThe noble Lord says we should not put constraints on the other place when we consider these amendments. Has not the argument been put forward many times from the Benches on which…08 Apr 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) BillI wonder if the noble Lord might add this to the conditions in which this Bill would have been unnecessary: if Parliament had been prepared to respect the result of the referendum.08 Apr 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) BillThe noble Baroness was rather dismissive a moment ago about the inhibitions of procedure. Is this whole Bill not designed to put such inhibitions in place? That is what we are…08 Apr 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) BillMy Lords, I have listened with care to the speeches of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Goldsmith, and the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, and the intervention from my noble friend Lord…08 Apr 2019