Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) My Lords, the United Kingdom Government are absolutely committed to standing up for democracy and defending - Speech Link
2: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) There appears to be a departure from India’s secular constitution and its underlying democratic principles - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) However, the noble Lord will be aware of the challenges we face because of the constitution of the Security - Speech Link
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1: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) However, our democracy and values of inclusivity and tolerance are under challenge from extremist groups - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) free speech and the rule of law, which uphold our democracy under the Crown? - Speech Link
3: Claire Hanna (SDLP - Belfast South) That would of course undermine and change the constitution of the United Kingdom and its democracy. - Speech Link
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1: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning (Con - Life peer) and forward-looking median voters for whom the constitution is not a priority seems to me obvious. - Speech Link
2: Lord Dodds of Duncairn (DUP - Life peer) that point and say it is an issue that must be resolved in a satisfactory way which restores democracy - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) Further than that I shall leave to the Constitution Committee and to the deliberations of this House.What - Speech Link
4: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) and the struggle against communism in the past but the battle for freedom and democracy today, particularly - Speech Link
5: Baroness Humphreys (LD - Life peer) and sometimes enmity.As your Lordships’ Constitution Committee report, Respect and Co-operation: Building - Speech Link
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1: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) I am extremely grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Moylan and Lord Blunkett, and the noble Baroness, Lady - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) that he displayed and for his crystal-clear description of these amendments and of the injustices and - Speech Link
3: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) at the expense of the legislature in our reports Government by Diktat and Democracy Denied?. - Speech Link
4: Lord Carter of Haslemere (XB - Life peer) noble Lord, Lord Moylan, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, all on the same side. - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) the Minister and the Government. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Constitution Committee sets out the government justification for these clauses in the human rights memorandum - Speech Link
3: Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (XB - Life peer) We led the way forward, and virtually every proper democracy has that principle. - Speech Link
4: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) Equally, the constitution should not suffer the embarrassment of having the head of the Parole Board, - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) differing opinions, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Stewart - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LD - Life peer) that a lot of lessons have been learnt about a lot of people I had never heard of who have made our democracy - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The two responses to the JCHR and the Constitution Committee were cleared this morning and issued this - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) Agency, the Department for Business and Trade, and the Competition and Markets Authority.My right hon - Speech Link
2: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) want to ensure somehow that, in a democracy, we have oversight of it. - Speech Link
3: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) their ability in order to conduct themselves in a way that we would all agree is unsatisfactory in a democracy - Speech Link
4: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) Until Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, it had been a great part of our constitution that convention - Speech Link
5: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) That would typically introduce a further safeguard to protect democracy and our role as legislators, - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) Either your Lordships’ House starts to act in defence of our liberal democracy and against the extremists - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) of the constitution. - Speech Link
3: Lord Deben (Con - Life peer) of the constitution. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) of the constitution. - Speech Link
5: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) Justice is an important part of our democracy and goes alongside the rule of law. - Speech Link
6: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) trust in the court system, parliamentary democracy and government in this country and destroying the - Speech Link
7: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) by consent, democracy and accountability built on the rule of law. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) I appreciate that that is part of our democracy; I do not object at all to the fact that they can do - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) of the data subject, and so on; and apply the exemption only if the application of the particular UK - Speech Link
3: None vulnerability of the person concerned and the impact on their rights and freedoms. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) When the Minister publishes his response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights and the Constitution - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) to the workings of ordered, representative and accountable democracy. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) Some of us believe that there should be referees in a democracy that is built on the rule of law, and - Speech Link
4: Baroness D'Souza (XB - Life peer) pillars of the UK constitution. - Speech Link