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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 04 Jun 2020
Covid-19: Economy

"My Lords, I am not sure that the public are prepared for what we are about to face. Today’s headlines are about deaths and infections. In five months’ time they will all be about soaring unemployment, a shrunken economy and sky-scraping debt. This is not a typical recession caused by …..."
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Written Question
House of Lords: Reform
Thursday 14th May 2020

Asked by: Lord Lamont of Lerwick (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the reply by Lord True on 4 May (HL Deb, col 373), what plans they have to name those responsible for speaking to the Sunday Times about plans to reform the House, as set out in the report in the Sunday Times Lords too old to sit - 'so they should stand down', published on 4 May. [T]

Answered by Lord True - Shadow Leader of the House of Lords

As both the Leader and I said in this House last week, this is not Government policy.

The Conservative manifesto committed to looking at the role of the Lords, but any reform needs careful consideration, not to be brought forward piecemeal.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 18 Mar 2020
Budget Statement

"My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord O’Neill, and I intend to agree with much of what he said.

As the noble Lord, Lord Oates, said in his excellent speech, the Budget on 11 March now seems an eternity away. It was a challenge for …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 16 Mar 2020
European Union: Negotiations (European Union Committee Report)

"I do not disagree with everything the noble Lord has said in his formidable speech, but is there not one scenario that he has not covered? If there is a free trade agreement, will not a large part of the protocol fade into it?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 16 Mar 2020
European Union: Negotiations (European Union Committee Report)

"Is that not a very mercantilist view?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Oct 2018
Brexit: Civil Service Impartiality

"My Lords, as someone who strongly supports Brexit, may I say how much I support and agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Luce, has said? I deplore all the attacks made on civil servants. I particularly deplore—and have said this to several people—attacks on Sir Jeremy Heywood. He was …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 10 Oct 2018
Infrastructure and Projects Authority

"If my noble friend’s reply to the noble Lord, Lord Harris, is that this signalling system, whatever it is called, is for the project managers, then the question perhaps ought to be reformulated: what have the project managers been doing while the lights have been flashing?..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Mon 03 Jun 2013
EUC Report: EU External Action Service

"My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Teverson not just for the way in which he chaired our inquiry into the European External Action Service but for all the work that he has done for the committee. He has been a very open-minded but firm chairman, and we had …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 29 Jun 2012
House of Lords (Cessation of Membership) Bill [HL]

"If I understand what the Minister said, under the Government’s proposals Members of this House will be paid according to attendance. He has also said that they will not have to do constituency work. Does not this fall into exactly the phrase that the Deputy Prime Minister used as a …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 14 May 2012
Queen’s Speech

"Some of the jury is on this side of the House...."
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