Brexit: Proposed UK–EU Security Treaty (European Union Committee Report)

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Jay, for tabling this very timely debate. We are in very c...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord West of Spithead, said that this is a timely debate. In some ways ...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope specifically said—and as the noble Baroness, Lady Smit...

My Lords, I am a member of my noble friend Lord Jay’s sub-committee. I want to take issue partly ...

My Lords, I meant absolutely no criticism of the noble Lord, Lord Jay, or the committee; it was j...

I understand. I was going to say that the report is still very relevant because it is a powerful ...

My Lords, I must first thank the noble Lord, Lord Jay, for introducing this debate with such rigo...

My Lords, there is a spectre haunting this debate: yesterday’s vote in the House of Commons, whic...

My Lords, this report is of immense importance. It is hard to overstate its importance to the saf...

This report, the proposed UK-EU security treaty, starts:

“The UK and the EU share a deep in...

My Lords, I congratulate the members of the committee on conducting this excellent inquiry and, i...

My Lords, to pick up on what my noble friend Lord Bach said, there is a tendency to be mealy-mout...

My Lords, I too thank the Lords European Union Committee and specifically its Home Affairs Sub-Co...

My Lords, as other noble Lords have done, I thank the European Union Committee for producing the ...

My Lords, as many noble Lords have alluded to this evening, a week is a long time in politics—and...

I am slightly confused. The Minister mentioned that this would be done in a piecemeal way and tha...

We are going for overarching. I think the point I made was that we disagreed over an ad hoc appro...

My Lords, I am reluctant to intervene on the Minister—I think we are all conscious of the time—bu...

My Lords, I hope noble Lords will forgive me; I talked about the political agreement as it stands...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister, but she needs to follow up on the “ad hoc” bit. In her answ...

If the noble Lord will indulge me, I will talk about the European arrest warrant when I answer po...

My Lords—

Will the noble Lord indulge me, as I am really running out of time? I have not said half of what ...

I too thank noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. It has been a serious one on a serious...