Queen’s Speech

I would rather he took that honour than me. I would have a job explaining that one away but I am ...

My noble friend’s problems are nothing compared with mine. I keep getting invited to meetings of ...

I wonder whether the noble Lord finds it as confusing as my case: I keep being asked for very lar...

I hope that that little interlude has helped many of us to decide where we are and who we are. I ...

My Lords, in intervening in this debate, I must set the context in which I do so. Since March 201...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Dunlop, on his appointment to the House and on his ...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to take part in this debate. I know the convention is that we sh...

My Lords, for the two Bills on which I will lead for the Opposition —on charities and to create a...

My Lords, I very much enjoyed the speech just made by the noble Baroness and found it very intere...

My Lords, this will be a Parliament dominated by constitutional issues: the Scottish question, th...

While agreeing with the noble Lord on the need to have some sort of constitutional convention, su...

The noble Lord always likes to look backwards. I am not going to engage in looking backwards. He ...

My Lords, in a debate in the other place shortly after the European convention was signed in Octo...

My Lords, I rise to make a short contribution to this important debate on the Motion that an humb...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord was commendably brief, but I remind noble Lords that we stil...

My Lords, the gracious Speech and so many of the speeches we have heard today referred to the one...

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate, especially given the kindnes...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure on my part to congratulate the right reverend Prelate the Bishop...

My Lords, the election results on 7 May 2015 felt for many of us like those of 1 May 1997 in reve...

Would the noble Lord care to remind us of the result of the referendum on the AV proportional sys...

My Lords, one of the big problems was that noble Lords such as the noble Lord, Lord McAvoy, clear...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to be taking part in this debate, which includes a number of maiden sp...

My Lords, it is an honour—although one laced with trepidation—to address your Lordships’ House fo...

My Lords, it is an enormous privilege to be able to follow the noble Lord—my noble friend—Lord Li...

My Lords, I wish to make a few brief reflections on the present position in Scotland and a furthe...

My Lords, I have heard some excellent speeches today, particularly from the three new Members of ...

I hope the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, will forgive me if I do not follow up his remarks ...

My Lords, for some years now I have felt a sense of pride in being able to represent this House a...

My Lords, in many respects, the fear of who might govern one part of the United Kingdom was a dec...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Purvis. I congratulate those who...

My Lords, the gracious Speech includes one very important sentence as far as Northern Ireland is ...

My Lords, in the few minutes available, I want to focus on the fundamental point deriving from th...

My Lords, it has been an enlightening and enlightened debate, and there have been wiser counsels ...

My Lords, it is quite clear that in the next five years we will face a great constitutional uphea...

My Lords, it is interesting where the applause for that comment came from. At this late stage in ...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the wise words of my noble friend—I think that I can c...

Thank God!

Who said “Thank God”? I never did like some of the Liberal Democrats but now they are on our side...

Faulks.

No one can pronounce my name properly either. You know who I mean. By the way, we also have the n...

My Lords, I start by echoing the praise which has been given throughout this House to the three m...

My Lords, I join colleagues in welcoming our new Lords and thank them for their contributions tod...

My Lords, it is difficult for me to deny that the UK is in the middle of a constitutional crisis ...

My Lords, I, too, wish to congratulate the Minister, the noble Lord, Lord Dunlop, on his maiden s...

My Lords, I join most of the other speakers today in supporting the idea of some form of constitu...

My Lords, I join others who have congratulated the new Peers who made maiden speeches this evenin...

My Lords, first, let me say how pleased I was to hear the three maiden speeches. I am particularl...

My Lords, it is getting late; we are getting towards the fag-end of this debate and feeling tired...

My Lords, in this debate there has been a clinching new argument for Scottish independence: the v...

My Lords, although he is momentarily not in his place, it would be remiss of me not to welcome my...

Listening to the contributions on the constitution today has left me feeling rather more optimist...

My Lords, I join others in congratulating the outstanding maiden speakers, particularly my noble ...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Dunlop, on his most thoughtful speech....

My Lords, democracy is ailing. The unity of our United Kingdom is in peril. It is entirely possib...

My Lords, I also want to welcome our three maiden speakers and their excellent maiden speeches. I...

My Lords, I wish first to congratulate those noble Lords who made their maiden speeches today. Ea...

My Lords, I associate the Labour Benches with the tributes to the three maiden speakers today. Th...

I know the hour is late, but could the noble Lord tell us where the money is coming from?

It will be entirely a matter for the Scottish Parliament to raise the money. You ask a question, ...

I thought the noble Lord was describing the Labour Party’s policy, but he seems to be articulatin...

We have taken a defeat. The noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, indicated that we were defeated because of ...

I do not purport to speak for my noble friend Lady Adams, who is more than able to do that. Howev...

That is absolutely right, and that is the point I made: that both my noble friends were genuinely...

My Lords, this has been a lengthy but remarkable debate. It has contained a little bit of post-el...

This is straining at gnats. I was a member of the Cunningham commission that looked at the Salisb...

That is precisely what I thought was being said by the Liberal Democrats. It is now on the record...