"He is pointing at my noble friend Lady Hodgson of Abinger, his wife.
I am eternally grateful to my noble friend for all that he has done. As for this report, there are a number of reasons why we should adopt an authority looking at population. First, population and migration …..." Lord Horam - View Speech
"I think we can all agree, my Lords, that if anyone deserves a debate on a subject of their choice, it is my noble friend Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts. This is not simply because of this particular report, with its brilliant title asking us to look to the future, …..." Lord Horam - View Speech
"My Lord, any competent economist alive or dead recognises that a crucial part of a Government’s economic performance, particularly one which is predicated on getting more growth, is to control public spending. Margaret Thatcher, although she was not an economist but a chemist, recognised that. When she took over, public …..." Lord Horam - View Speech
"I will follow my noble friend Lord Hannan on this subject of consultation. It really is quite shocking that there is no mention in the agreement of any consultation with the Chagossians—no mention at all. Indeed, as I said at Second Reading, there is only one mention of Chagossians and …..." Lord Horam - View Speech
"I should just correct the noble Baroness. When Mr Henry Smith was the Conservative MP for Crawley, he listened very carefully to the people in his constituency. He was also an active member of the APPG on Chagos, of which I am a member...." Lord Horam - View Speech
"My Lords, we recently celebrated the centenary of the birth of Margaret Thatcher. I think we all realise that we could do—as many people say today—with another Margaret Thatcher to deal with the mess confronting us. We certainly need her ability to centre on the economic problems of the country …..." Lord Horam - View Speech
"My Lords, I shallow narrow down the grand anti-colonial views of my noble friend Lord Hannan—it was a splendid piece of radical demography, if I may say so, and really well done—to the point made very clearly by the noble Baroness, Lady Hoey, and my good and noble friend Lord …..." Lord Horam - View Speech
"I am very interested in the remarks made by the noble Lord, Lord Kerr. He always makes a very pertinent point, but this is surely wrong in common sense. I do not speak as a lawyer, as the noble Lord, Lord Faulks, did, but this is common sense. Surely, as …..." Lord Horam - View Speech
"To adjudicate between my noble friends Lord Harper and Lord Jackson, I think that my noble friend Lord Harper has a point. We can do something short of full-scale electronic data collection and the identity card system. The problem at the moment, frankly, is the cost, and it was a …..." Lord Horam - View Speech
"Exactly. It is such a pity. We made the point on ID cards just recently that one of the worst aspects of our system of government is new Governments coming in and instantly reversing policies carried through by the preceding Government. ID cards were an example where my noble friend …..." Lord Horam - View Speech