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HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I shall wait for just a minute while those who do not wish to hear my exciting speech absent themselves. Those who heard the remarkable speech by the noble Lord, Lord…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I have a question more out of ignorance than expertise. I am old enough to have gone round as a young man in the days when different parties competed in treating the…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I will speak on whether Clause 25 should stand part, which is grouped with these amendments in an attempt to improve Clause 25. I will begin with some remarks about Part…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, we on these Benches hope that the Government will be willing not only to listen but to accept both of these amendments, either in their current form or in some reshaped…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI want just to check on the question which has already been raised about the extra security costs. While preparing for this Bill, I went to talk to the Bradford electoral…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI simply wish to congratulate the Minister on following so very clearly the precautionary principle in legislating here for something that has not yet happened and might happen,…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I do not know whether the noble Lord reads the Sunday Times —perhaps he only reads the Sunday Telegraph —but the Sunday Times in the last two weeks has included a good…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI am sorry to be obtuse. I do not entirely understand Clause 24(7), which defines the requisite UK connection of an unincorporated association. I think I understand it as meaning…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, may I ask the Minister a question? I do not entirely understand this clause and the unincorporated association element is the least clear to me. I googled…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, the scars are still on my back from having taken the transparency of lobbying Bill, now an Act, through this House. I remind the Minister that we paused it when we ran…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillThe Minister referred to the established 12-month period. I was not aware of it as an established principle. Perhaps now or in a letter, the Minister will tell us when it was…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillWe on these Benches are totally unaware of this organisation, but I am glad to hear that it was staffed by Liberal Democrats. I am sure the Minister would expect it to be a…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I in no way suggested that. I merely remarked that the question of where the largest donation to the Brexit campaign came from has not been explained, which is entirely…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I am conscious that there are other democracies in Europe which have parties on the right that have admitted to receiving money from Russia as loans or as grants.…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillThis is an important principle. The noble Lord and I have spent some time looking at the Charity Commission, on which he is much more expert than I am. I used to be able to quote…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillWe need not discuss the various alternative forms of voter registration. “Not necessarily” is the easy answer. The second principle I want to focus on, mentioned by my noble…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, one of the things on which there was consensus from all the various reports that fed into this Bill was that what we need most of all is a simplification of electoral…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I am often grateful I was never an election agent. I fought five elections and was once approached and asked if I would work as an agent for an early election. I am…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, if I have understood the argument that the noble Baroness has been making, this clause would not in any sense change the outcome of the Thanet case. If it is clarifying…15 Mar 2022HANSARDTrade Talks with India, Greenland and IsraelMy Lords, it is very encouraging to hear that we are now negotiating with Greenland. Can the Minister tell us what British export sectors will benefit most from a trade agreement…09 Mar 2022