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HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Second sitting)Perhaps a way of resolving the difference of view between the right hon. Member for North Durham and the witness is for the witness to cite some of that evidence in writing as a…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (First sitting)I am a professor at the University of Bolton.07 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Second sitting)Q I am interested to hear your view that, essentially, this is a Bill that is not addressing a problem, because the evidence we have received, both in writing and verbally earlier…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (First sitting)Q I am going to use this microphone as instructed, Sir Christopher—my apologies for speaking from the wings. I refer members of the Committee and others to my entry in the…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (First sitting)Q The implication of what you are saying is that a lot of that will be invisible, because we do not know what people do not say. We do not know who would have been promoted had…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Second sitting)Q I want to follow that up. In the light of your advice, Mrs Cummins, I declare my interest as a part-time professor at Bolton University, as recorded in the register. Professor,…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Second sitting)Q And in that sense, it will change the balance of power between academics and university bosses, because there is a sense—and this is about governance as well, isn’t it—that in…07 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Second sitting)It could be unconscious bias.07 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Second sitting)Q The implication from earlier witnesses, Arif Ahmed, Nigel Biggar and others, is that there is what amounts to a culture of fear. You are setting out the very reason why the Bill…07 Sept 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillWill the hon. Gentleman give way?20 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Billrose—20 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI am delighted that my hon. Friend has brought us this Bill. He deserves great credit for it, alongside the Home Secretary. But will he go further? Will he fulfil the pledge to…20 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillThat abuse is not limited to people smugglers. It extends to the so-called human rights lawyers who know how best to game the system and to activists who encourage people to claim…20 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy right hon. Friend has many faults, and I am aware of a handful of them, but one of them is not naivety. He has far more qualities, and his quality will tell him that the system…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI am extremely grateful. Is not the truth of the matter that too often our courts exaggerate the significance of international treaties and obligations and, by so doing, frustrate…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillWill my right hon. Friend give way?19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Welcome to the Chair. Edmund Burke said: “Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillAbsolutely, it does not, nor is it just to pillory the public and those who speak for them when they argue that we should enforce the law and that migration should be controlled.…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillSurely the hon. Gentleman must realise that while the principle of granting asylum—of giving sanctuary to people in desperate need—is a noble one, it is being gamed, day after day…19 Jul 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders BillAs my hon. Friend may know, I am a former maritime Minister, and it absolutely right to say that the agreement that we have with the International Maritime Organisation to rescue…19 Jul 2021