Succession to Peerages Bill [HL]

My Lords, I rise to support the Second Reading of this Bill, and I must immediately declare an in...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Trefgarne, for the opportunity to discuss this is...

My Lords, as noble Lords will have noticed, I am British but not English and I look at a lot of t...

My Lords, I welcome my noble friend Lord Trefgarne’s Succession to Peerages Bill. As an aficionad...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Trefgarne, for bringing this issue to the House, if only to tease ou...

I accept entirely that hereditary peerages will be removed from this House. Sooner or later that ...

I know that I am the only other woman speaking, and, as I said, I am not even English, but the no...

I am very grateful to my noble friend for allowing me to say a word. I want to be a loyal member ...

What we are discussing is whether as a House we want to continue with titles and the privilege an...

My Lords—

If I could just finish with this example. I am arguing that the Bill seems to be based on the con...

I am sorry, my Lords, I think in this debate you cannot give way—you just have to keep going.

I am delighted to get that bit of advice. The assumption behind this—that because there are title...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate my noble friend Lord Trefgarne on securing this Second Reading, wh...

My noble friend has spoken on this point, and we have listened with care. Can he tell us how many...

I will have to write to confirm that, but I am led to believe that there are scores. I will need ...

My Lords, I am grateful to every noble Lord and noble Baroness who has contributed to this debate...