Soft Power and the UK’s Influence (Select Committee Report)

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Howell of Guildford, and his committee on an excell...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Howell of Guildford, most profoundly for his magnificent c...

My Lords, in welcoming this report, I want to draw attention to the role of languages in soft pow...

My Lords, as a member of the committee, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Howell, for his chairmanship...

My Lords, it would be pretty justifiable to complain rather vigorously that it should have taken ...

My Lords, the committee that produced this report was an absolute nightmare to sit on at the begi...

My Lords, I, too, welcome the report and congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Howell, and his commit...

My Lords, it is an enormous honour and privilege to join your Lordships' House and speak in this ...

My Lords, it is a great privilege to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Wolf of Dulwich, on he...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Howell, and his committee on this excellent report....

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Crisp, whose knowledge of what is happ...

My Lords, I apologise for being late for the beginning of the debate, but I was detained. I decla...

My Lords, I start, perhaps unusually, with the confirmation that because I am no longer a directo...

My Lords, we are very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Howell, one of the most thoughtful Members...

My Lords, I join others in expressing real thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Howell, for a particula...

Like other noble Lords I thank the noble Lord, Lord Howell, for an excellent, fascinating report....

My Lords, in congratulating my noble friend and the members of his Select Committee on their repo...

My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Howell of Guildford, for securing this very full deb...

My Lords, this is an important debate on a very valuable report. In plain English, the theme is a...

My Lords, in debating the findings of this report, we clearly owe a great debt to the noble, Lord...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Howell, and his committee on this excellent report,...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate, led by an outstanding contribution from the noble Lo...

My Lords, this excellent report and this debate, led by the noble Lord, Lord Howell, have really ...

My Lords, this is a fascinating subject for anyone who cares about international development and ...

My Lords, when you are number 26 in a list of 30, everything you thought you might say that might...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Howell of Guildford, and his Select Committee...

My Lords, the report Persuasion and Power in the Modern World represents the very best that this ...

My Lords, this has been a very wide-ranging debate on a wide-ranging report. It is clearly going ...

My Lords, it remains for me to thank your Lordships for your very favourable reception for this r...