Mentions:
1: Lord Low of Dalston (CB - Life peer) The equation between the referendum and democracy is specious. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) I see nothing at odds with democracy in the electorate changing their mind. - Speech Link
3: Lord Leigh of Hurley (CON - Life peer) that would not be in the fine traditions of the House.This House is usually thought of as an august, deliberative - Speech Link
4: Lord Cavendish of Furness (CON - Life peer) It has contempt for democracy. - Speech Link
5: Lord Lansley (CON - Life peer) The response, however, should not be to deny democracy but to use our parliamentary democracy to build - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Low of Dalston (CB - Life peer) In other words, the House of Lords has a more deliberative character, better suited to a revising Chamber.Thirdly - Speech Link
2: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) As I have said, it could enhance the democracy of our Parliament. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Basildon (LAB - Life peer) Challenge and scrutiny have an essential role in any democracy. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Tugendhat (CON - Life peer) None the less, democracy trumps all. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Mallalieu (LAB - Life peer) However, democracy surely means government by all the people. - Speech Link
3: Lord Carlile of Berriew (CB - Life peer) should not supplant another, permanent element, which is the deliberative democracy we have in Parliament.I - Speech Link
4: Lord Howarth of Newport (LAB - Life peer) We must remake our politics and democracy. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Butler of Brockwell (CB - Life peer) The McKay commission and the Democracy Task Force, chaired by the right honourable Kenneth Clarke MP, - Speech Link
2: Lord Wills (LAB - Life peer) Government’s proposals are of profound constitutional significance and, as such, they deserve the kind of deliberative - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Wills (LAB - Life peer) The politics of our democracy are febrile. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Bolton (LAB - Life peer) That is a serious situation, not just for our democracy but for our society. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Lipsey (LAB - Life peer) Good polling can contribute to public policy-making in a democracy. - Speech Link
2: Lord McColl of Dulwich (CON - Life peer) importantly, the report criticises the polling against benchmarks that would be appropriate only if a deliberative - Speech Link
3: Lord Bridges of Headley (CON - Life peer) It would be unwanted regulation of business and bad for democracy. Is this necessary? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gerald Kaufman (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) He claims to be in charge of a liberal democracy, yet, as I repeat, if this were taking place in any - Speech Link
2: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) Beyond that, the campaign in the wider country has been insistent, clear and deliberative and has used - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) They are the lifeblood of democracy, and we should show them some respect today: having this debate—albeit - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Wills (LAB - Life peer) : democracy, respect for the rule of law, equality and tolerance. - Speech Link
2: Lord Taverne (LDEM - Life peer) expression of democracy. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wills (LAB - Life peer) wonder whether he could tell your Lordships’ House what consideration the Government have given to deliberative - Speech Link
4: Lord Nash (CON - Life peer) The whole principle of consultation is that it is deliberative and that people will respond. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Stephen (LDEM - Life peer) Surely this is not the Labour way; either Labour is committed to democracy or it is not. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Derby (Bishops - Bishops) In this kind of world we have to ask whether democracy as we understand it—one person, one vote—is fit - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Derby (Bishops - Bishops) However, democracy—one person, one vote—is a very simplistic way of trying to manage power and influence - Speech Link
4: Lord Dykes (CB - Life peer) Democracy in action—what a good idea. - Speech Link
5: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) would be a little more radical to suggest that we might end the use of titles, but that would be a more deliberative - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Adams of Craigielea (LAB - Life peer) That cannot be good for democracy. - Speech Link
2: Lord Maclennan of Rogart (LDEM - Life peer) As the noble Baroness, Lady Adams, said, it is clear that this needs to be deliberative. - Speech Link
3: Lord Tyler (LDEM - Life peer) Credit should be given to Peter Facey, formerly of Unlock Democracy, who wrote about such a model in - Speech Link