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HANSARDChurch of Scotland (Lord High Commissioner) BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Baroness the Leader of the House for introducing the Bill. As she says, it is a simple and straightforward Bill which will enable a most…19 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, this is a very serious subject and the fact that some may not consider it to be serious or worthy of a long debate is troubling but, I would submit, it should be…12 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI am sorry to persist. It is clear that we are getting nowhere on this tonight, but I believe this is a very constructive proposal. I am very disappointed by the noble and learned…12 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I am grateful to all those who have spoken—sorry, I am forgetting that I am not a Minister anymore; that is what the noble Baroness says. This debate has generally…12 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I have signed the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Lucas in this group, but that is not because I agree with every aspect of his amendment. I am not sure…12 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, and I both grew up in the post-war era. When I sat in front of our coal fire as a little boy, I used to love pulling at the threads of my…10 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe noble Baroness challenged me on one thing, and perhaps I can make it clear for the Hansard record that I was certainly not laughing at her, even if other noble Lords were. I…10 Mar 2025HANSARDUkraineMy Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. The United Kingdom has long been a bastion of freedom and a steadfast defender of democracy. Ukraine has been fighting…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillIf I may: this is Committee. The noble Lord can come in. I am concluding my remarks, but I will answer him later. We have seen in recent days the nature of negotiation with a big…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I think it is right for me to intervene. I say to the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, who asked me for an apology, that I make no apology for carrying out the policy of my…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillIf I may borrow a phrase from a more prominent person than I, did I really say that? The joys of social media and smartphones are very wonderful. I stand corrected by the noble…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThat is not fair to the Leader.03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I must tell the noble Lord, Lord Cromwell, that in the last Recess I visited the tomb of Diaghilev on San Michele. As always, it was covered with ballet shoes. I wonder…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillIt was Labour.03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillIf the noble Lord will allow me, I was strongly in favour of the proposals put forward by the coalition Government and I look forward with interest to the debate launched by the…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe time is late, and the noble Lord is going down a trail that does not exist. I did not say that I rejected that; I said that we should keep all routes to a destination open.…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I am grateful to all those who have spoken, and of course to the noble Baroness the Leader of the House. We began today with what I thought was a generally very…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I say to the noble Lord, Lord Newby, that I seem to remember that in the House of Lords which, to its shame, agreed to the execution of the King, there were only about…03 Mar 2025