Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

My Lords, I must inform the House that, if Amendment 16 is agreed to, I will not be able to call ...

My Lords, I shall be very brief and will say nothing about the breadth of the power being sought ...

My Lords, I simply express my very strong support for what the noble and learned Lord has said: t...

My Lords, in the spirit of trying to help the Government, I will repeat what I said in relation t...

My Lords, I have been looking at Clause 12 through a particular prism. As my entry in the registe...

May I ask the noble Lord two questions? First, should these problems not have been considered by ...

I cannot answer for the UK Government on whether they should have been raised before; that is cle...

My Lords, I associate myself with my noble friend Lord Purvis of Tweed and the noble and learned ...

My Lords, I apologise for not having been present for the first two days in Committee for family ...

My Lords, I too support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, for al...

I should just like to ask a question of whichever Minister will reply to this brief debate. I am ...

Could I suggest to the noble Lord, before he sits down, that the real question is not whether the...

As so often, the noble Lord puts it very well. It ought to be a parliamentary lesson to us all: n...

My Lords—

The big point about this clause is the one made by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, suppor...

We cannot get in.

I am delighted that the silence may be about to be broken. It seems to me it would be odd to be i...

My Lords, I am truly grateful for the opportunity to participate, and would have done so earlier ...

My Lords, listening to the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, just then, my mind drifted back a decade or so...

My Lords, there has been much discussion today, and it goes back to the issue of democratic defic...

My Lords, I rise to support the noble Lord, Lord Leigh, but, before doing so, I repeat what I sai...

There are many difficulties with that argument, the first being that there are good-faith negotia...

Does the noble Lord accept that the provisions of Article 18 are contrary to the agreement that w...

It is elementary as a matter of diplomacy and of international law that a country is perfectly en...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for effectively giving way. He rightly said, both in his letter t...

If the noble Lord’s position is that the EU is acting in bad faith, the United Kingdom, if it tak...

My Lords, it is certainly my understanding that the negotiations are being undertaken in good fai...

It should be to me.

That is helpful, thank you. What kind of measures do we anticipate, and what would be their impac...

I agree with the noble Baroness that I was trying to create a framework, in a very amateurish way...

That is a very helpful question. I do not think the situation is about being with or without Clau...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate and fully acknowledge that t...

I intervene on a narrow point. Why is my noble friend against the test of necessity being include...

I believe that my noble friend is talking about the ministerial powers that exist here. We have h...

Can I take from what the Minister said that the intention is that there would be one UK-wide sche...

I acknowledge what the noble Baroness has said. As I said, what we are looking to do in the basis...

I do not think we are.

No, I think we are. That is exactly what we are seeking to do. It is clear that the noble Barones...

I do not think it is clear; I do not understand. If the wish of the Government is to apply UK sta...

I have listened again to the noble Lord and, if I may, just for clarity, I will ensure that I get...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the Minister’s response. He knows that I respect him greatly, bu...

We come to Amendment 20. If this amendment is agreed to, I cannot call Amendments 21, 21A or 21C ...

Moved by

Lord Purvis of Tweed

20: Clause 13, page 7, line 27, leave out subsection (4...

My Lords, Amendment 20 is, in many ways, connected and therefore I need not be as long about this...

My Lords, I shall not repeat myself, but I shall draw attention to the fact that, in the debate o...

My Lords, I speak to Amendments 21B, 21C, 23B and 23C, in my name and the names of my noble frien...

My Lords, in declaring an interest as chairman of the Climate Change Committee, I wish to follow ...

My Lords, I continue to be worried by the interrelationship between the trade and co-operation ag...

My Lords, I want to make yet another appeal to my noble friends on the Front Bench to pause this ...

I keep hoping that the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, will say something with which I can disagree—but...

I understand what the noble Lord is saying—that the European Union would likely invoke some kind ...

With great respect to the noble Baroness, that is not what the public opinion polls are telling u...

The opinion polls told us that remain was going to win the referendum—they were very wrong.

I have no expertise to match that of the noble Baroness. But I do think we need to remember that,...

Will my noble friend accept this, just to get the two noble Lords together—if I may put it like t...

My Lords, I rise to support Amendments 21B, 21C and 23C in the name of my noble friend Lord Hain....

My Lords, I wonder whether we should stop and think for a moment. The electricity issue that has ...

As always, the noble and learned Baroness speaks great sense. I shall address very briefly a poin...

Oh!

It is getting late—we are almost at dinnertime, I hope. The point is about international law. Cla...

My Lords, this is the third day we have been debating the Northern Ireland protocol and I know Me...

My Lords, this group of amendments brings us to the role of the European Court of Justice, with C...

My Lords, I thank again all noble Lords who have spoken on this issue. I will approach the questi...

Lord Purvis of Tweed.

Did I say “Lord Tweed of Purvis”? It is written in my notes as “Tweed of Purvis”. It is getting l...

The noble Lord said that the Government take the view that it is inappropriate for the court of j...

I have given the Government’s position, and I am going to totally digress at this point from my s...

Very helpful.

I am glad to be of service to the noble Lord.

The Minister has been very generous and kind in saying that he was grateful that I raised the sin...

I do not know if I disappoint or please by saying that there are several more pages in my speakin...

My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s response. I reassure him that I am not precious either...

My Lords, I hope we can make slightly faster progress on the Bill after dinner, having completed ...