Recall of MPs Bill

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment. At an early stage this evening, the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Hughes of Woodside and his wide-ranging...

My Lords, those who have been patient enough to watch these proceedings at Second Reading, in Com...

May I ask my noble friend about binary campaigns? It is not. It is a single-issue campaign. You c...

I suppose the point I was making was that there are only two possible things that you can do in r...

My Lords, again, this debate has ranged fairly widely. I am happy to discuss further with the nob...

The noble Lord mentioned a situation in which a Member of Parliament might have been campaigning ...

I was merely making the de minimis point. Above £500, you have to report. These amounts are then ...

The Minister may or may not be right about the proportion on either side. The principle is surely...

I am merely talking about the difficulty of having one accredited lead campaigner on either side....

If it were accepted that there could be more than one accredited campaigner on each side, would t...

My Lords, I will have to take that one away and think about it. The Government have not considere...

I hope—I think—that I understand him as saying that it is something he will be prepared to look a...

My Lords, I cannot give that assurance at the moment. Between now and Third Reading we have some ...

Before he sits down, I really need to have it from the Government’s mouth that the Minister’s fai...

I understand that. It is a one-horse race, of course. The other does not have a horse at all, so ...

My Lords, it is interesting that it was the Minister himself who mentioned the Transparency of Lo...

Moved by

Lord Kennedy of Southwark

24: Schedule 5, page 56, line 41, leave out “, on ...

My Lords, Amendment 24, which is in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Hayter of Kentish To...

My Lords, the Government are keen to encourage participation in recall petitions, but in allowing...

I thank the noble Lord for that. I am very pleased with the response of noble Lords and, on that ...

Moved by

Lord Gardiner of Kimble

25: Clause 21, page 14, line 27, leave out “(includi...

My Lords, the proposed amendment would alter Clause 21 to remove the power for the Act to be amen...

My Lords, Amendment 25 removes the words “including this Act” from the Bill. The Delegated Powers...

Moved by

Lord Norton of Louth

26: After Clause 24, insert the following new Clause—