European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Goldsmith, and the noble Lo...

Hear, hear!

The purpose of this Bill is to provide the legal mechanism to ensure that if we leave the Europea...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for allowing me to go before the end of the debate, which allows m...

My Lords, I do not intend to detain your Lordships very long by my remarks. Like many others in y...

My Lords, one thing on which we are all agreed is that this is a hugely important and necessary B...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Grocott. He is an accomplished parliame...

My Lords, the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, to which I hope we are going to give an unopposed...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hannay. He and I co-operated as closel...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern. I coul...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my erstwhile political friend but I hope still persona...

My Lords, I want to make clear my overall support for this Bill and its purpose. Technically, it ...

My Lords, with so much already having been said, I shall limit myself to addressing the concern e...

My Lords, having stood on Hove beach with a cross-party group of MPs and campaigners in May 2016 ...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, and to hear about the ...

My Lords, my views on Brexit have not changed since our debate on 5 July 2016, after the referend...

My Lords, there have been some excellent speeches from both sides of the House and on both sides ...

My Lords, I am particularly pleased to follow the previous speaker. Perhaps that six minutes shou...

My Lords, I suspect that I am not alone in your Lordships’ House in having spent the last year be...

My Lords, I voted remain in the referendum not for any great love of the European Union and its i...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register, in particular as a partner in the gl...

My Lords, unlike the noble Lord, Lord Hague of Richmond, who brought two new items to the debate,...

My Lords, I deem it appropriate that I am speaking in the presence of my noble friend Lord Pannic...

My Lords, unlike the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, who I am delighted to follow, I will be general ...

My Lords, we are in the final straight and much has been said already. Inevitably, our debate tod...

My Lords, in opening what many of us believe to be the most important debate in any of our lifeti...

My Lords, I hope that I will not annoy any Members by deliberately putting myself out of order, p...

My Lords—

I do not really want to give way, if my noble friend will forgive me, because of time. It would b...

Well, he is an old friend, but I just want to know where he picked up his very moderate vocabular...

It is a circumstance of the urgency and the emergency in this country of this great and unfolding...

My Lords, I should start by confessing my membership of the Constitution Committee. I say “confes...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a remainer and I will focus on the deficiencies of the withdra...

My Lords, we are in the twilight zone of this long debate. I am speaker No. 161, and I have been ...

My Lords, without this Bill exit day will be an Armageddon of legal chaos. Governments, public au...

My Lords, I want to follow the line of argument developed by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Jud...

My Lords, this Bill started life as an oxymoron—let us be honest. The great repeal Bill repeals s...

My Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble Lord. I would like to dedicate my speech, if this i...

My Lords, on this very day, 31 January, in 1606, Guy Fawkes was executed following the failed Gun...

My Lords, it is hard to follow the noble Lord, Lord Saatchi, and it is hard to follow Warwickshir...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, as I seem to have done for the past 20 years. ...

I welcome this Second Reading to consider the continuing role of the UK Parliament in the future ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow so many excellent speeches on this historic Bill, but it is ...

My Lords, many have spoken in the context of the tripartite relationship between the Executive, P...

My Lords, I remember the enthusiasm with which I voted for the 1972 Act and how I campaigned vigo...

My Lords, when the Leader of the House opened this debate, she implied that this was a narrow and...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord. As he said, more or less everyone agrees tha...

My Lords, I respect and support the principle of the Bill as a key piece of legislation which wil...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend. I am consoled in the thought that I am not ...

My Lords, if the Whips arranged the speaking order for tonight’s debate in order that I might be ...

My Lords, as several noble Lords have mentioned, and as the Constitution Committee report said, l...

Before coming to the Bill itself, I must say something very briefly about where I come from in re...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble and right reverend Lord with his customary though...

My Lords, that was quite a contribution from the noble Lord. I must say, when I hear Singapore pr...

My Lords, we are coming towards the end of a passionate two days of debate, during which the nobl...

My Lords, when I asked the Government Whips’ Office if I could speak late today, it never crossed...

My Lords, that is rather like suggesting that one ought to remain inside a burning house in the h...

Thomas Cromwell.

Ah, Thomas Cromwell.

Oh!

In which case I withdraw entirely my criticism. But some people drew the parallel between taking ...

No!

But I grew out of it.

We are keen on Edmund Burke quotes. The one I would suggest the House...

Could the noble Lord inform the House what proportion of the Greek population wishes to remain in...

I have no idea what the proportion is, but if the noble Lord is suggesting that they have a refer...

My Lords, I have never heard the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, quote someone as left as Cromwell befo...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow two noble Lords from Scotland—the noble Lords, Lord Forsyth an...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, as it always is. It is also a p...

My Lords, I was going to start by saying that the image I cannot get out of my head from these tw...

My Lords, this has been the most extraordinary debate, has it not? We have heard from former judg...

My Lords, the nature of the debate that has taken place over the past two days has shown the valu...

Oh!

He told me to say that. The wealth of expertise and experience in this House is ideally suited to...

My Lords, I think it was someone other than Burke who said that on all great matters there was mo...