Strathclyde Review

Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that I will not allow him to use that word that he has just used—...

Those were words used by Disraeli in this House. I am not maintaining that any Member has acted h...

I accept what the hon. Gentleman is saying, but the fact that Disraeli was also wrong does not ma...

Well, Madam Deputy Speaker, what word would you use for it? Let me make it absolutely clear that ...

I accept that the hon. Gentleman is not impugning any Member of this House, so for the moment I w...

It does not feel as though we are trying to move anything through the back door, given that I am ...

May I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement and join him in thanking Lord Strathclyde for his ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments about the report and the work done by Lord Strat...

May I thank the Leader of the House for early sight of his statement? Rarely has there been a rev...

The hon. Gentleman talked about pre-arranged outcomes, but I think I could have written his speec...

I also welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. I wonder whether the views of the Opposition wou...

I heard the shadow Leader of the House say that what took place has happened to a Labour Governme...

It is a pleasure to be in the Chamber today for the First Reading of the Punishment of the Tax Cr...

I will not use any words to describe the views of the Opposition party, but given that, after 13 ...

Whatever happens to the Lord Strathclyde’s workman-like review, all of us who believe in democrac...

There is always a case for modernisation in a parliamentary or constitutional process, and that s...

I am afraid that, yet again, when we need comprehensive review and reform, the Government are off...

I am not trying to drive anything through this House. We are considering a report that has been p...

This latest constitutional skirmish is just another symptom of a second Chamber that is far too l...

The reason I have not in the past supported an elected House of Lords is that it would create sig...

Madam Deputy Speaker, may I wish you a happy new year and a merry Christmas?

It is a fine r...

I can only repeat what I said earlier: Governments use primary and secondary legislation. When th...

I echo the words of other Members who have spoken and urge my right hon. Friend to move forward w...

I do not imagine that we have heard the last of this debate, but when it comes to enacting our ma...

Is the Leader of the House aware that people will recognise this as one big sulk, because of the ...

The reason this matter has come before us today is that, by general acknowledgement, the conventi...

As a new Member of this House, I must say that I find the other place a completely ridiculous ana...

My hon. Friend expresses a sincerely held view and one which I know is shared by many in the Hous...

As people have been wishing the occupant of the Chair a happy Christmas, having been at the Star ...

If the hon. Gentleman went to both the Star Wars movie last night and the Scottish National party...

Given that the House of Lords barely pay regard to a convention these days, I welcome the stateme...

I note what my hon. Friend and others have said today. That is something the Government will have...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and merry Christmas to you and to everyone in the House. The pow...

I remind the hon. Gentleman that the changes that he is referring to were voted on and passed fiv...

If we have a revising Chamber in the form that we have, it makes sense that it still has a role i...

Of course, we need to look at all three options carefully before we respond. On other matters rel...

I listened carefully to the Leader of the House when he talked about the House of Lords giving th...

If we talked to the public about the way our Parliament works and said that we have an elected Ho...

Surely the episode that gave rise to the report was simply an example of Parliament functioning a...

What really happened was that having set out some tough decisions that we said we would have to t...

Since I was elected democratically in May, 62 new Lords have been appointed to the other place. T...

I know that the Scottish National party believes in abolishing the House of Lords, and I know it ...

The removal of the veto from the House of Lords effectively leads to the formation of the most ex...

Scottish National party Members are both consistent and not terribly shy in their views on the Ho...