Ukraine
My Lords, this is a sombre occasion, but I still welcome the opportunity to provide this House wi...
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her introduction to this debate. I am also grateful to t...
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My Lords, only six months ago we were describing the chaotic retreat from Afghanistan as the bigg...
My Lords, noble Lords may have seen that my most reverend friend the Archbishop of Canterbury and...
My Lords, like others, I greatly look forward to the maiden speech of the noble Lord, Lord Sedwil...
My Lords, there is an old saying: in Russia, everything changes in 20 years and nothing changes i...
My Lords, I thank your Lordships for permitting me to make my maiden speech in a debate of such s...
My Lords, it is a real pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Sedwill and be the first to congra...
My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts, who brings to the tabl...
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Campbell. I particularly agree with wha...
My Lords, I intend to focus on just one issue, but I first join the praise for the noble Lord, Lo...
I join with others in welcoming my noble friend Lord Sedwill and his remarkable, notable and dist...
My Lords, I am particularly pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Alton, who spoke with passion ...
My Lords, I join with the noble Lord, Lord King, and the noble Lord, Lord Sedwill, in his admirab...
My Lords, the security warnings, as Ukraine was encircled, were indeed right. It seemed that the ...
My Lords, I join the near-universal condemnation of current operations by Russia against Ukraine....
My Lords, yesterday, 24 February 2022, is a date which will live in infamy. President Putin told ...
My Lords, like others, current events ricochet around my family life. My father fought in what he...
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter of Kentish Town. I agree wit...
My Lords, there is one particular lever that we especially control, and that is access to the fin...
My Lords, one of my first professional involvements with Ukraine was in 1994 when, as Britain’s P...
My Lords, I was in Germany when the wall fell. It was a marvellous moment to have the whole of ou...
My Lords, in light of the one issue I intend to speak about, I draw attention to my interests in ...
Neville-Jones.
I apologise to the noble Baroness. I will start again. With some trepidation now, I congratulate ...
My Lords, I start by adding my warm congratulations to my noble friend Lord Sedwill on his excell...
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the superb speech from the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stir...
My Lords, I was in Moscow in 1968 when the Soviet army put down Dubček, and I feel the same cold ...
My Lords, I begin by congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Sedwill, on his notable maiden speech. H...
My Lords, we are all Ukrainians today, in the same way that we were all Czechs and Poles in the f...
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Adonis; it was also a pleasure to be in...
Yesterday was a sad, bad day for Ukraine, Europe and the world. First, our feelings are of course...
My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Harries of Pentrega...
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Sedwill, on his speech and welcome him to the House...
My Lords, yesterday we woke to a new era of war in Europe, made all the more shocking by Putin’s ...
My Lords, it is a privilege to speak in this debate and to follow the noble Lord, Lord St John of...
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, is taking part remotely, and I invite him to spe...
My Lords, the unthinkable is happening as this tragedy unfolds. It was the danger of such conflic...
My Lords, I remind the House of my interests noted in the register, particularly those at Oxford ...
My Lords, many years ago Zbig Brzezinski said that
“without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an...
My Lords, the speeches we have heard today, including the remarkable maiden speech of the noble L...
My Lords, I extend my congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Sedwill, who I am sure will read th...
My Lords, I seek as always to add new points to the debate, so I will simply mark my agreement wi...
My Lords, I agree with what other noble Lords have said about President Putin’s disastrous behavi...
Noble Lords laugh, but they clearly do not know this. The article puts the crisis into its broade...
My Lords, I support the government response to the Ukrainian situation that we have seen thus far...
My Lords, I want first to say how much I have valued the opportunity to listen to your Lordships’...
My Lords, I am pleased to follow the contribution from the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Brixton. Ru...
My Lords, I of course share the views already expressed on the appalling nature of the events tha...
My Lords, this has been a very serious debate, full of the most enormous range of experience from...
My Lords, it is a great privilege to have been present for the brilliant maiden speech by my nobl...
My Lords, as we debate, people are laying down their lives for the freedom of their country. I kn...
My Lords, I stand in support of Ukraine and of our values, as the noble Lord, Lord Robathan, exho...
My Lords, what a privilege it is to speak on behalf of Her Majesty’s Opposition in this historic ...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their insightful contributions to today’s debate. It would ...
This is what happens during debates. I assure the noble Baroness that I was at the United Nations...