Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

My Lords, I know that my noble friend has raised this point. As I have indicated, there are parts...

Moved by

Lord Cormack

My Lords, I have never moved an amendment expressing regret before and I thought long and careful...

My noble friend says his amendment would allow a Second Reading but in effect it wrecks the passa...

Yes, it is entirely proper and consistent with this House’s role to pause, which is all that we a...

My noble friend rightly paid tribute to the Minister and the fact that the negotiations are going...

My noble friend is entirely entitled to his opinion, but I remind him that, until very recently—b...

My Lords, nearly three years ago, Ministers and the then Prime Minister returned from Brussels tr...

My Lords, over the Recess, the Minister and I both travelled to regions of the world where peace ...

My Lords, in making foreign policy, it is a good idea to think about who you might have as an all...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts. I have no experience of livi...

My Lords, it is very unfortunate that the noble Lord, Lord Ricketts, should tell this House that ...

My Lords, if it had not been for the United States of America I very much doubt that there would ...

My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Murphy, who always speaks ...

My Lords, I speak today as chairman of the committee on the protocol in your Lordships’ House, ne...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Jay, who chairs our committee on the pr...

My Lords, I am genuinely grateful for the opportunity to follow the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, for w...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Howard. I am also a member of your Lord...

My Lords, I grew up in Ireland and most of my family still live there, so I want to concentrate o...

My Lords, I want to focus on why this Bill would, if implemented, be a manifest breach of interna...

The noble Lord speaks with great authority and expertise—I have heard it often before and it is v...

I think the noble Lord refers to obligations of good faith. The answer is that the protocol sets ...

My Lords, I support the Bill. If fully enacted, this legislation has the potential to provide tan...

My Lords, I served as a member of the sub-committee on the protocol under the excellent chairmans...

My Lords, I begin by noting the level of engagement with the Bill in your Lordships’ House, both ...

My Lords, I cannot pretend to offer any better ideas than anybody else about how to get Stormont ...

My Lords, like so many others, I oppose this Bill because it contravenes the rule of law. First, ...

My Lords, I do not want to put the noble Baroness on the spot. However, since she is speaking of ...

I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, that the Bill is ill-conceived and does not consider the...

My Lords, I rise to speak not as an expert on Northern Ireland but simply as a member of the Dele...

My Lords, I rise to support the Bill. As a former Member of the European Parliament—

I am sure the noble Baroness will get a go.

My Lords, to clarify, there has been a bit of a swap. It is the turn for the noble Baroness, Lady...

My Lords, I rise to support the Bill. As a former Member of the European Parliament and a current...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Howard and Lord Pannick, for providing us with an unanswe...

My Lords, on 9 November 2019, Boris Johnson stated categorically about his oven-ready EU deal and...

My Lords, I find the Bill rather shocking, and I fear that we have to stand up and be counted and...

My Lords, as the Minister indicated earlier, we are debating this Bill against a backdrop of poli...

My Lords, by far the most important reason for opposing this Bill is the fact that it is a clear ...

I am very grateful to the noble and learned Lord for giving way since he has made a direct accusa...

I am extremely reassured to hear that but it is still “if the protocol is sorted out”. Who will d...

My Lords, I support the Bill. I speak as a remain voter, a strong supporter of the Good Friday ag...

It is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bew, who has made the important point—strangely ...

My Lords, I am a simple soul, and the argument put forward by the last few very eminent speakers ...

My Lords, yesterday much of the debate in this Chamber concerned the havoc in the markets caused ...

My Lords, I was really fascinated when I listened to the noble Lord, Lord Bew, asserting that no ...

My Lords, I rise to express my opposition to the Bill. I am opposed to it both in principle and i...

My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Viscount, Lord Hailsham. Our spirits, battered by the ...

My Lords, the Bill we are debating today is deeply flawed, on grounds of both practice and princi...

I rise in support of giving the Bill a Second Reading and as another member of the Sub-Committee ...

My Lords, I start by observing that today’s debate has seen the House of Lords at its very best, ...

My Lords, I begin by congratulating my noble friend Lord Cormack on his amendment and on the way ...

My Lords, having listened to the debate thus far, I appreciate that DUP-bashing can be a popular ...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way. Does he accept that the DUP is currently preventing the re...

I accept that the DUP has made it abundantly clear that it will not go into the Executive. Have n...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords, in particular my noble friend Lady Nicholson, for allowing me to s...

Will the noble Lord confirm that what he has just said amounts to saying that he was negotiating ...

I have made the point many times that we were operating within the constraint of a law that usurp...

My Lords, I am a member of the European protocol sub-committee under the chairmanship of the nobl...

My Lords, I, too, am a member of the Sub-Committee on the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, u...

My Lords, recently, the work of the European Affairs Committee has been heavily overshadowed by t...

My Lords, there is much to be learned from the speech of the noble Earl and I am grateful to be a...

My Lords, whatever one may think of Northern Ireland politics, peace and political stability is t...

My Lords, no matter his verbal dexterity and acknowledged charm, the Minister was unable to prese...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend, his department and our Whips for their engagement with my seri...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to speak after my noble friend. I welcome this Bill and support it who...

My Lords, this is the first opportunity that I have had to address your Lordships’ House since th...

I regret the Bill before us this evening. On its passage through this place, I will oppose the pr...

My Lords, believe it or not, we are only five weeks into His Majesty’s new Government. I suspect ...

My Lords, by this late hour we have heard many articulate, passionate and, dare I say, tetchy spe...

My Lords, I was not sure whether to speak in this debate on a Bill which I simply do not like, bu...

My Lords, no one had proposed anything like the Northern Ireland protocol until the second half o...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way since he was obviously referring to me. I am wondering abou...

There is absolutely no question that the Northern Ireland protocol would not have been agreed had...

My Lords, it is a fact that the protocol has downgraded Northern Ireland’s position within the un...

My Lords, I am totally opposed to this Bill. I do not like the idea of “excluded” provisions in i...

My Lords, in a recent speech the vice-president of the European Commission, Maroš Šefčovič, said:...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Chapman dealt with some of the political and practical considerati...

My Lords, I begin by expressing my appreciation for the very large number of thoughtful and infor...

I do not want that honour.

I hear the noble Lord and will revert to him in due course. It is not possible to equiparate inte...

Is not my noble and learned friend rather missing the point? None of us has suggested that the do...

I respond to my noble friend by saying that the assertions that it breaches international law sim...

Can the Minister define in a few words what the necessity is in this particular instance?

My Lords, I think it would be wrong of me at this stage in the Second Reading to engage in a deep...

My Lords—

I will not give way at this stage.

An argument which was deployed by some of your Lordships...

My Lords—

My Lords, again, with the utmost respect, I decline to give way to the noble Baroness. She has my...

The point is to answer noble Lords.

I hear the noble Lord; I will not give way.

It remains the Government’s preference to reach...

Hear hear.

The Government have not triggered Article 16—from early in the debate, I note my noble friend Lor...

Well done.

It would appear that I am losing the House’s patience.

The Bill allows the Government to im...

My Lords, we have had a very long debate. I have heard every single word of it because I have not...

Tabled by

Baroness Chapman of Darlington