Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Scotland and the Scottish people. - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Jo Cox Foundation called the abuse of MPs a “threat to democracy”. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) She will know that the defending democracy taskforce, headed by the Minister for Security, is looking - Speech Link
4: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) I am sure the Leader of the House will agree with me and my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader - Speech Link
5: Desmond Swayne (Con - New Forest West) They are the nearest thing that we have to a written constitution. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) But reducing South Africa to a wasteland would lead not to a nonracial democracy but to more oppression - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) and the exceptions to it. - Speech Link
3: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) harm to the environment, including the life and health of plants and animals”. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bryan of Partick (Lab - Life peer) fundamental change in the constitution. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) Article 28 of the Rwandan constitution recognises the right of refugees to seek asylum in Rwanda.In light - Speech Link
2: None the party to which I belong on the importance of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, both internally - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) just human rights, and not just the rule of law, but democracy itself. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Hailsham (Con - Life peer) It does not have a long tradition of democracy. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) When politicians do not have their interests at heart, not only do they lose faith in democracy and seek - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) some countries’ constitutions—for example, Ireland has that important role as part of its constitution - Speech Link
3: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Rather, general and other elections must be part of a process of deliberative democracy that engages - Speech Link
4: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) We talk about the word “democracy”, but let us remind ourselves of the history of that word. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) My Lords, India is a multifaith, multiethnic democracy and remains among the most religiously diverse - Speech Link
2: Lord Singh of Wimbledon (XB - Life peer) It is true that India has what is called a secular constitution, but since then, we have had the riots - Speech Link
3: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) The noble Lord makes a very good point about the rumbustious nature of Indian democracy. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The title of this year’s report was The Cost of Collapse and the Cost of Control, and it indicated that - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bshp - Bishops) the freedom of belief which is a feature of our own democracy. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) They have never had a place in Britain.My party’s constitution starts with the words:“we seek to balance - Speech Link
4: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) extremism and promoting democracy. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) On that basis, the Constitution Committee asks us to consider whether the breadth of the Secretary of - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) chance.As the noble Baroness said, we are in an area of great concern for the level of democracy that - Speech Link
3: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It is essential in a healthy democracy that registered political parties, elected representatives and - Speech Link
4: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) The Constitution Committee’s report on the Bill, published on 25 January, noted:“Clause 9 amends Article - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) from liberal democracy, and the great changes in technology, as we see in social media and so on, mean - Speech Link
2: Lord Hussain (LD - Life peer) within the Indian constitution. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) We need to be thinking and exploring issues ahead of time, and the Bill gives us and the Government the - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) Alton, the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, and others, defined within our Human Rights and Democracy Report - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) sarcasm and banter—a cup of tea, sport, the BBC, and so the list goes on. - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) and the way Christians treated and persecuted one another in the past. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) teachings; our constitution; our monarchy; our flag. - Speech Link
4: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) , but in a vigorous democracy there must be this freedom of expression. - Speech Link
5: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) worship, democracy, the rule of law and equal rights are things that we all strive for and value. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Carlile of Berriew (XB - Life peer) My understanding is that the Government accept that Rwanda is a democracy, so is the First Reading of - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) This Government are choosing tyranny over democracy in this instance. - Speech Link
3: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) What the noble Lord appears to suggest is that there is a confusion in the Rwandan constitution; I do - Speech Link
4: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) on in the response to the Constitution Committee which the Government have issued. - Speech Link