Lords debate on motion to take note of the current situation in Libya and the Middle East; and United Nations Security Resolution 1973. Agreed to on question.
Libya
Debate on Friday, 1 April 2011,
in the House of Lords,
led by Lord Howell of Guildford.
The answering
member was Baroness Royall of Blaisdon.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
726 c1443-518
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions
Lord Gilbert | 726 c1504-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, when one has at some time in one’s career been exposed to classified papers one recognises...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 726 c1506-10 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister, the noble Lord, Lord Howell of Guildford, and the Government f...
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Lord Stone of Blackheath | 726 c1500-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as a follow-on to that, I propose to the House something which may seem too wide and long ...
Lord Dobbs | 726 c1502-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it has been a privilege to listen today to such an incisive, important and well informed d...
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 726 c1498-500 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is customary in this House to welcome the holding of a debate on a subject as important...
Lord Trefgarne | 726 c1497 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, might I ask the noble and learned Lord a question? He appears to have overlooked the view ...
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon | 726 c1493-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I join others in thanking the Minister for his opening statement and his continuing leader...
Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde | 726 c1492-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for initiating this debate and add my thanks to my noble friend...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 726 c1515-6 (Link to this contribution)
That is a fair point, which I think the noble Lord recognises is a point of argument rather than of ...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 726 c1515 (Link to this contribution)
I entirely agree with the Government about Bahrain. The point that I was making was simply that ther...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 726 c1516-8 (Link to this contribution)
My noble friend Lord Wallace of Saltaire, who is a considerable expert on these finer points, tells ...
Lord Gilbert | 726 c1516 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister just talked about lawful Governments but he has agreed, as everyone else has done, that...
Lord Risby | 726 c1491-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, first, I applaud my noble friend Lord Howell of Guildford for so characteristically and kn...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 726 c1488-91 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I imagine that I speak for many people on both sides of this Chamber when I say that, for ...
Lord Palmer of Childs Hill | 726 c1487-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, first, I thank the Minister for his valued introduction. I will draw the attention of the ...
Baroness Turner of Camden | 726 c1485-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I speak as someone who opposed the so-called humanitarian interventions in both Iraq and K...
Lord Selsdon | 726 c1484-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, over my years in your Lordships’ House I have never forgotten the advice that a Chief Whip...
Lord Hughes of Woodside | 726 c1482-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I join all of your Lordships who have welcomed the policy in Security Council Resolution 1...
Viscount Slim | 726 c1481-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I think that it is proper for me to declare that, in the past, I have been chairman of the...
Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke | 726 c1479-81 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will keep off the dangerous subject of lawyers. I thank the Minister for the opportunity...
Lord Soley | 726 c1479 (Link to this contribution)
I shall have to go away and read Edmund Burke; I am not 100 per cent sure about that. I am not entir...
Lord Gilbert | 726 c1479 (Link to this contribution)
Before my noble friend sits down, would he not agree that everything that he has just been saying ab...
Lord Soley | 726 c1477-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I want first to congratulate the Government and the Prime Minister because they acted righ...
Lord Alderdice | 726 c1470-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we are grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Howell, for providing this opportunity for us to d...
Lord Trefgarne | 726 c1469 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will not detain your Lordships for more than a few moments, but I start by declaring an ...
Lord Bates | 726 c1474-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the previous two contributions because my contribution will co...
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 726 c1472-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I heartily endorse everything that the noble Lord, Lord Alderdice, has just said. We shoul...
Lord Teverson | 726 c1460-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the military intervention in Libya was one of the most difficult areas on which to decide—...
Lord Parekh | 726 c1466-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I must confess to a certain degree of unease about our Libyan operation. The Minister’s st...
Lord Craig of Radley | 726 c1464-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for the way in which he introduced this very important debate. ...
Lord Trimble | 726 c1456-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall comment only on Libya, and indeed on only two aspects of it, avoiding the temptati...
Bishop of Ripon and Leeds | 726 c1455-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for this debate, and for the way the Motion is phrased to al...
Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 726 c1450-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for this opportunity to debate events in the Middle East today. I ...
Lord Trimble | 726 c1458 (Link to this contribution)
Wait, my Lords. He continued: "““We always hide behind words like ‘creating a tone of stability, pro...
Lord Anderson of Swansea | 726 c1449-50 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate the Minister on his helpful update, both on Libya and on the wider repercus...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 726 c1445-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, on Sunday last, NATO allies decided to take on full responsibility for the implementation ...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 726 c1443-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in moving this Motion, I had hoped this morning to be able to put before your Lordships a ...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 726 c1443 (Link to this contribution)
Moved By
That this House takes note of the current situation in Libya and the Middle East; and Uni...
Lord Boyd of Duncansby | 726 c1496-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as Lord Advocate I prosecuted the Lockerbie trial. I mention that not to claim any great i...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 726 c1510-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I begin by thanking all noble Lords who have spoken and the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, w...
Lord West of Spithead | 726 c1462-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for this opportunity for the debate and for his exposition of w...
Lord Robertson of Port Ellen | 726 c1458-60 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I also thank the Minister for the up-to-date briefing that he gave the House today. Many p...
Lord Boyd of Duncansby | 726 c1497-8 (Link to this contribution)
It did not. It said that there may have been a miscarriage of justice and referred it back to the Ap...
Lord Stirrup | 726 c1453-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it seems to me remarkable how often over the past couple of decades names and places that ...
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