Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

My Lords, before we proceed with this Committee, can we be assured that there is not a plan to al...

My Lords, I believe it would be for the convenience of the House if I were to put the Question to...

I understand my noble friend’s desire for clarity and certainty, but the Government would be perf...

Moved by

Baroness Suttie

4: Clause 2, page 1, line 17, at end insert—

“(A1) Thi...

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendment 5, in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Ritch...

My Lords, I am absolutely delighted to add my name to this suite of amendments in the name of the...

My Lords, Harold Macmillan, that great Tory Prime Minister, had a quotation on his desk or wall—I...

My Lords, I rise to support these amendments tabled by my noble friend Lady Suttie and signed by ...

I support the amendment, so ably moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Suttie, for a simple reason. I...

My Lords, the amendments would subject aspects of the Bill to the approval of the Northern Irelan...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Suttie in her amendments. Notwithstanding the appeal fro...

My Lords, I rise to put a technical point. I am not sure of the answer—it is a genuine question—b...

I agree that external trade is a reserved matter, but here we are talking about trade inside the ...

My Lords, for a number of years I was shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. I have not ...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baronesses, Lady Suttie and Lady Ritchie, on their amendment. ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, made a powerful—emotional, to some extent—speech last week ...

My Lords, it is indeed a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Campbell, with whom I had ...

My Lords—

Other Members have had their say so I am going to proceed in terms of my speech.

The amendm...

My Lords, I am not going to comment on the politics of Northern Ireland—I am a mere lawyer—but th...

My Lords, I appreciate that I am a relative newcomer to this House, but I had understood that in ...

My Lords—

No other noble Lords have taken interventions, so I will complete my points if I may.

It is...

I thank my noble friend for giving way. The view that I think many around the Committee hold is t...

I thank my noble friend for her comments; she is correct to say that the situation last year was ...

I did not plan on speaking in this debate, but I think it is only right that somebody should than...

My Lords, I had been planning to speak on the detail of the amendments. It seems to me to be quit...

This has been a much more wide-ranging debate than I had anticipated. I guess we will see a lot o...

My Lords, I trust that the Committee will forgive me if I, somewhat unfashionably, pay lip servic...

I am most grateful to the Minister for giving way. Could he perhaps give an instance in which Nor...

The noble Lord is a former diplomat. He is a far greater expert on these matters than I will ever...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I know that we will come on to the application of...

As the noble Lord rightly pointed out, we will deal with this subject in the fourth group of amen...

My Lords, I begin by echoing the Minister’s comments on May Blood. On behalf of these Benches, I ...

Moved by

Lord Purvis of Tweed

7: Clause 4, page 3, line 13, leave out subsection (3)<...

I rise to move Amendment 7 and to perhaps add some mascara to this porcine proposal for the satis...

I was hoping that others would take on the strain. I spoke at Second Reading, and I have tried to...

In effect, we have heard this evening a reiteration of Dunning’s Motion in the reign of George II...

I completely agree with the noble Lord, particularly in relation to his tribute to the noble and ...

My Lords, I came into Parliament nearly 40 years ago and was told first of all that you should ne...

My Lords, in an earlier debate the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman of Darlington, pointed out preced...

My Lords, when the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, set out this group of amendments, he rightly said tha...

My Lords, I am well aware of the sensitivity in this House regarding Henry VIII powers, and I res...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Bew, raises a fascinating conundrum, but what he said about Articl...

My Lords, I really agree with every word that has just been said. I have another suggestion for t...

My Lords, I will not rehearse what I said previously about Article 16, but I will see if I can an...

If I may intervene briefly, I have tried to explain that I had an intense relationship with Artic...

But if the consequence of doing so is to embrace a Bill which