"My Lords, one ongoing issue in Iran that has received virtually no publicity in this country or across the West over the last 20 years is the repeated action by trade unions and trade unionists striking against the regime. For the last 20 years, that has been a continuum. The …..." Lord Mann - View Speech
"My Lords, the role models we have heard about are incredibly powerful for young girls out there, but they are also incredibly powerful role models for young boys. In the past 15 years, the world we live in has been totally transformed. Young boys are not being brought up in …..." Lord Mann - View Speech
"The Statement looks forward to the availability of a vaccine, which will be—when it happens—warmly welcomed in this House, of course, as well as across the country and indeed the world. But one ethnic minority group will have a kickback at that time. A report I have just released, a …..." Lord Mann - View Speech
"My Lords, when schools return, will competitive sport be allowed for all these kids who have been locked inside for so many months? If not, what is the precise evidence base that this would create additional risk?..." Lord Mann - View Speech
"Will all secondary schools be required in September to provide details of which pupils have disappeared from their rolls? Will those figures be provided to government?..." Lord Mann - View Speech
"Every school can have an elected trade union health and safety workplace representative with statutory powers to carry out risk assessments. How many have done so?..." Lord Mann - View Speech
"My Lords, for nearly 20 years I represented primarily former coalmining families in the so-called red wall. The first thing I was told in a school when I went there after I was elected was, “You shouldn’t expect too much of these kids because they are pit fodder”—as their fathers, …..." Lord Mann - View Speech
"I cannot believe what I am hearing. It is a good job that steelworkers and steel communities have not waved the white flag when they have been called upon repeatedly to defend our shared values with the US over the past 100 years. We cannot give in to this. The …..." Lord Mann - View Speech