Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 04 Jul 2011 Sri Lanka
"My Lords, does my noble friend not agree that the Government have no jurisdiction over Sri Lanka, that there are many awful things that happen all over the world over which we have no jurisdiction, and that it might be more appropriate if Her Majesty’s Government dealt more effectively with …..." Lord Tebbit - View Speech
"I am grateful to the noble Lord for lecturing me on conservative principles. Does he think that when Locke was making that speech—..." Lord Tebbit - View Speech
"Does the noble Lord think that he envisaged a day when Parliament would be transferring sovereign powers from the people of this country to those of another country, to people who they could not elect and could not dismiss?..." Lord Tebbit - View Speech
"May I assume, therefore, that in defence of parliamentary sovereignty and all that of which he has been speaking, my noble friend will assert the right of Parliament, and none other, to decide whether prisoners should have any voting rights at all? Will he be on side in this matter …..." Lord Tebbit - View Speech
"My Lords, at the risk of striking a discordant note, could I put it to my noble friend that the business of the Government is governing this country rather than telling eternally almost every other Government in the world how to govern theirs?..." Lord Tebbit - View Speech
"Would my noble friend like to agree that all great journeys commence with a single step? Perhaps he could arrange for our masters in Brussels to allow children of 10 in this country to purchase crackers for Christmas...." Lord Tebbit - View Speech
"Is my noble friend aware that if we seek to impose our views excessively on other sovereign states we may set a precedent for some of them to impose their views on us, and that many states, particularly those which observe Sharia law, might have some fairly strong comments to …..." Lord Tebbit - View Speech