House of Lords (Expulsion and Suspension) Bill [HL]

My Lords, I wish to support the Bill in both its branches. I shall take the suspension provisions...

My Lords, we have had in the two opening speeches every justification that we might need for agre...

My Lords, I, too, thank and congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, on bringing forward the...

My Lords, as your Lordships now know, I have the honour of chairing the Sub-Committee on Lords’ C...

My Lords, like all noble Lords who have spoken so far, I support the main thrust of the Bill, but...

My Lords, I add my voice to those who have supported the Bill. I do so briefly because I know tha...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Butler of Brockwell, and entirely endorse...

My Lords, I, too, support the Bill. As others have said, in the two debates earlier this year—tha...

My Lords, I support the Bill for many reasons, most of which have already been ably and eloquentl...

My Lords, I support the Bill and will try to be very brief, because it is a very brief Bill and m...

My Lords, I, too, add my support to the Bill. On the last occasion on which I was the last Back-B...

My Lords, in introducing her Bill, my noble friend Lady Hayman was most persuasive and we on the ...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord but he has just indicated that, if the Bill is to go throu...

My Lords, that was an extremely helpful intervention, at least for Members of your Lordships’ Hou...

My Lords, the Government do, of course, remain committed to a broader scheme of Lords reform, as ...

The noble Lord says that the Government have no settled view. That is disappointing but it could ...

My Lords, I am trying to be as positive as I can be but the noble Lord knows as well as I do, hav...

I am listening with great care to what the noble Lord is saying and we all know the pressure that...

I also take that point and will take it back. We had rather hoped that with a fixed-term Parliame...

If it is less of a wash-up, there is only a very tiny dish.

I entirely understood. Unfortunately, some rather larger dishes may yet be introduced, which the ...

My Lords, the noble Lord’s tone is encouraging but slightly light-hearted. I regard this as a ver...

My Lords, we appreciate that this is a serious matter. We all understand the question of the Hous...

My Lords, I am enormously grateful for the support that I have received from all Benches of your ...

I must congratulate the noble Baroness. She talked about completing a stage of House of Lords ref...

It is the never-ending story of British politics. However, I turn briefly to two points made by n...