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HANSARDProgression of Bills through ParliamentI have not participated in the debate because I was not able to be here at the beginning, but I heard many of the speeches. In a number of them, it was suggested that the Bill…08 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressIt would be entirely inappropriate for me, or for any other member of the ISC, to say what we have received, which has now been sent to the police, but given that following an…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressFollowing on from the point made by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Sir Jeremy Wright), I would add, “or later”. He is right that the…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressWhen the Metropolitan police have concluded their investigation, all of that material will return to the ISC, and presumably the Government will then want to publish the…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressMy hon. Friend is right that that was highlighted in the ISC’s statement on these matters, and that is an issue to which it may return. It is not for me to prejudge that, but it…03 Jun 2026HANSARD Lebanon: Israel Defence Forces OperationsIn referring the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, I commend the Minister for visiting Lebanon in April, and for his continuing dialogue with the…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble Addressrose —03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressThe right hon. Gentleman knows me well, and he knows of my disdain for Gladstone and my deep admiration for his rival Benjamin Disraeli, who in my judgment was the greatest ever…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressThis House stands tall when those across it find common cause in speaking for the people. Our authority is derived from just that. There is immense wisdom present in the House…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressIndeed, you will chastise me if I do not stick to my chronology precisely, Madam Deputy Speaker. As the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the right hon. Member for Islington…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI will take up the point that the right hon. Member for Islington South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry) raised about mitigation later in the debate—should I catch your eye, Madam…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressOn that particular point raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis), what is not clear, however, is the relationship between the due…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI do not think that anyone wants to publish that document. The point is that it was a document that could have been made available to the ISC not for publication, not for…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressThe right hon. Lady will know furthermore that Ian Collard, through a letter sent on his behalf to the Foreign Office, told MPs that he had sent an email “recording the fact of…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI will say no more except this: Disraeli said that circumstances are beyond our control, but we all have control of our conduct. Of course it is true that the context in which the…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressI would not recommend it.03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressIn those terms, at what point did the Metropolitan police ask for the vetting summary? Clearly it is now a known fact that there was an assumption that that vetting summary, but…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressMy hon. Friend’s point is about the relationship between this House and the Executive and, more than that, the relationship between Ministers and officials. It is time that this…03 Jun 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson: Response to Humble AddressThat is true. Indeed, that might have been reflected in some of the messages that I have suggested to the Department that it might, even at this late stage, make available to our…03 Jun 2026HANSARD Business of the HouseAlong with the stealthy silence of knives and the deadly danger of guns, crossbows, in the wrong hands, cost lives. As the Leader of the House will know, they cost the lives of…21 May 2026