Queen’s Speech

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie ...

My Lords, I rise to speak about the climate emergency and declare an interest as a member of the ...

My Lords, after those wise words, I begin by declaring my interests as listed in the register: as...

My Lords, I want to make a few comments on the integrated security, defence and foreign policy re...

My Lords, we are in a highly volatile and dangerous world, but despite that I am afraid that Her ...

My Lords, initially I want to note how little reference there is in the gracious Speech to the ne...

My Lords, wishing to reflect those sensible calls for post-general election result renewal and re...

My Lords, I was glad to see Cyprus mentioned in the Tory manifesto in the context of resolving th...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey. I join others in congra...

I join the noble Lord, Lord Jay, in welcoming the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Ritch...

My Lords, I declare three interests, as a trustee of the Disasters Emergency Committee, chair of ...

My Lords, I also welcome the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, and look forward ...

My Lords, I doubt that many people would dispute that Britain’s foreign policy—its role in the wo...

My Lords, it is already well-covered ground, but I want to offer a few words on the interconnecte...

My Lords, there is no doubt either that our leaving the European Union will have profound effects...

My Lords, one of the reasons why I was passionate about staying in the EU, imperfect though it ma...

My Lords, I congratulate the Government on being the first major economy to put a net-zero target...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. We have entered a new international ...

My Lords, I declare my environmental interests as set out in the register. For me, the Queen’s Sp...

My Lords, our current foreign policy strategy includes a capacity to project power and influence ...

My Lords, happy new year. In welcoming a new decade, a new Parliament and a new Government, we al...

My Lords, I am ever the optimist, so I believe that the UK can look forward to the new decade and...

My Lords, I can hardly be expected to welcome the new Government, but nevertheless I congratulate...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to see that the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, has lost none of his fighting...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Dobbs. I cannot believe that these word...

My Lords, in my brief contribution I will speak about climate change and the environment. I decla...

My Lords, today’s world seems ever more precarious, with conflict and instability proliferating i...

My Lords, I declare my interests as listed in the register and I congratulate my noble friend Lad...

My Lords, with a new Government in place and at a time of severe international tension, it must b...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Downpatrick, on her maiden speech. I...

My Lords, it is always a privilege to follow the noble Lord. I draw the attention of the House to...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, on her excellent maiden speech. ...

On the point about the aircraft carriers, as I mentioned, they have now been paid for, so they wi...

I appreciate that. They cost £6.5 billion and that has been covered, but there will obviously be ...

My Lords, as we depart the European Union, we should remind ourselves that in wide areas of mutua...

My Lords, I join those who have congratulated my new noble friend Lady Ritchie on her outstanding...

My Lords, Her Majesty in her most gracious Speech reiterated this Government’s ambitious plans in...

My Lords, I will speak about Turkey and Syria, starting from 2013, when three left-wing Kurdish w...

My Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Downpatr...

My Lords, I declare an interest as an engineer in the energy industry and as director of the cros...

My Lords, in the short time available in this wide-ranging debate, I wish to focus on Latin Ameri...

My Lords, I want to concentrate my remarks on some rather narrower defence issues, moving away fr...

My Lords, I will speak principally about the trade opportunities for the UK in health and health ...

My Lords, I welcome the measures announced in the gracious Speech and look forward to debating so...

My Lords, Her Majesty’s gracious Speech affirmed the UK’s commitment to

“work closely with ...

My Lords, there are so many subjects that one could talk about after this Queen’s Speech, but I w...

My Lords, I join noble Lords in congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Downpatrick, o...

My Lords, we heard in the gracious Speech about

“An Integrated Security, Defence and Foreig...

I remind the noble Baroness of the advisory speaking time.

I am just coming to the end. Would a DfID Minister be happy to meet the APPG to look at the summi...

My Lords, the die is cast in political terms. We are leaving the EU, but there is still a way to ...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, on her maiden speech. At the same time...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Polak, just reminded us, General Soleimani was a deeply dangero...

My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Baroness, Lady Hooper, with regard to thinking on Latin Amer...

My Lords, I join other noble Lords in welcoming the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Rit...

My Lords, I will reflect briefly on the great office of state of Foreign Secretary and will try t...

My Lords, as we talk in this Chamber, the Middle East is once again a powder keg of extreme dange...

My Lords, I appreciate being able to participate in this debate following Her Majesty’s gracious ...

My Lords, for 23 years, I was a Member of Parliament for the marginal seat of Northampton South. ...

My Lords, I have the task of responding from these Benches after more than 60 speakers who have c...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Gardiner of Kimble, for his comprehensive introduction of ...

My Lords, I was struck by something said by the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara. He said ...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness, but there have been press and Twitter reports, and I ...

I can tell the noble Lord and the Chamber only what I have been given by way of briefing, and tha...

Perhaps my noble friend will allow me to intervene before she has to sit down—if she does have to...

Well, that has used up some of my two minutes. I will look at Hansard, and I note the point that ...