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HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI support all the amendments in this group but particularly Amendment 48, which has my name on it, to which the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, spoke. It is a great pity that the…02 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillIs the Minister sure that it is undesirable to include Amendments 62 and 63? Her arguments were all about whether it was necessary or not. The French say that if something goes…02 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill28 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, there are two ways in which to break a treaty, and I think that, looking back on it, I rather preferred the Brandon Lewis way—the straightforward, “Yes, we’re breaking a…28 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I welcome the new clause proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, but we need to do a belt-and-braces job here. I am…28 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI hope the Government accept the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, which clearly is supported all around the House. I believe it is supported in the higher ranks of…28 Feb 2022HANSARDUkraineMy Lords, I was in Moscow in 1968 when the Soviet army put down Dubček, and I feel the same cold horror today that I felt then. However, this is much worse than 1968. In 1991,…25 Feb 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I rise with some diffidence, because almost everybody else in the House has much greater personal experience of electoral law than I have. One of us, so we have learned…23 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI am impressed by the Minister’s argument that the intention is benevolent, but how does he square that with the opening point of the powerful speech of the noble and learned…10 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI love surreal art, even if I do not always understand it. This amendment seems to be completely surreal. Twenty-six pages of the Bill are clearly non-compliant with the refugee…10 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I would briefly like to support both amendments. There is an advantage in putting both ACRS and ARAP on a statutory footing. It is important to understand the need to…10 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI support all three amendments in this group and particularly that of the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, for two reasons. First, it gives me a rare and particular pleasure to say that…10 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI think the noble Baroness’s warning is very well taken. I support Amendments 118, 119A and 119B, but I want particularly to speak in favour of Amendment 116 in the name of the…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillCould the Minister answer the question from the noble Lord, Lord Paddick? It was rather a flippant answer that he gave—that everybody would be interpreting the convention…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillCould the Minister answer the question of the noble Lord, Lord Rosser? What is the problem that we are trying to solve here? Who is pressing for this change? The Law Societies…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillIt seems to me that the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope, and indeed all those in this group have to be right. The idea of offshoring is immoral and it would not be in…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillNo other country is in this position because other countries believe that the refugee convention means what it says. I am uneasy, and I think the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, must be…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillAs long as the queue is three, four or five years long, it is not really just a question of initial accommodation. This is pretty long term.03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI support these amendments, because they are good economics and good social policy, but if the Government resist them and insist that those people may not work, we are under a…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillThe noble Baroness should be careful. I quite agree that it was an interesting point, but it is a point that works for the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, not for the Minister. While…03 Feb 2022