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HANSARD No Confidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentI tried this with the Prime Minister earlier during Question Time, and I am going to give her one more chance: which of the red lines that she set, which caused her defeat last…16 Jan 2019HANSARDVanguard-class Life Extension ProgrammeAs the doyenne of British nuclear history, Lord Hennessy, observed recently, the current Vanguard life extension plans are a “technological leap in the dark”, which also means…14 Jan 2019HANSARDVanguard-class Life Extension ProgrammeBut I am afraid to say that, as the misery of the modernising defence programme has shown all of us, the Secretary of State’s Department has much less latitude with large projects…14 Jan 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) ActI will confine my remarks to the issue at hand. The current constitutional arrangement forbids Scotland from interacting on an equal footing either with our neighbours in the rest…10 Jan 2019HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal) ActIn his denunciation of Stalinism from exile in Paris in 1951, the Polish poet and diplomat, Czeslaw Milosz, wrote in his seminal book “The Captive Mind”: “Men will clutch at…10 Jan 2019 Bills sponsored (2)