"My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate, which has thrown up an enormous range of new ideas and thoughts that various committees of the House might take up. I was going to discuss with our clerk how we can summarise all the issues that …..." Lord Liddle - View Speech
"My Lords, it is a great privilege and pleasure to introduce this report on behalf of the Economic Affairs Select Committee of the House in place of our former chair, my noble friend Lord Wood of Anfield. He has, as the Salvationists would say in the 19th century on the …..." Lord Liddle - View Speech
"That this House takes note of the Report from the Economic Affairs Committee Preparing for an Ageing Society (2nd Report, HL Paper 236, Session 2024–26)...." Lord Liddle - View Speech
"My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Hunt on his excellent introduction to this debate.
I first met our new Prime Minister when he was a special adviser in the first term of the Blair Government. He was a great friend of the man with whom I shared an …..." Lord Liddle - View Speech
"My Lords, like my noble friend Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, I find that the quality of this debate has left me with very little fresh or new to say. I want to emphasise some of the very important points that have come out in the debate. The first is …..." Lord Liddle - View Speech
"My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, is to be congratulated on stimulating a very good debate. I agree with her fundamentally about freedom of speech and the shocking rise in antisemitism and intolerance in our universities, but I do not agree with the central thrust of her argument: that …..." Lord Liddle - View Speech
"My Lords, is it not clear that this is a welcome step forward, but that it cannot be the end of the story? We have to reaffirm our commitment to 3% by the end of this decade, and 3.5% by the middle of the next decade, as firm commitments of …..." Lord Liddle - View Speech
"My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Evans of Rainow, on securing this debate and on the largely non-partisan way in which he explained the problem.
I would love to see cross-party consensus on welfare reform, but if we are to get that, I totally agree with my noble …..." Lord Liddle - View Speech
"My Lords, I declare an interest in that my wife was a board member of the English National Ballet for many years. I want to follow up on the original Question. It is the case, as the Home Office would know if it bothered to consult the ballet companies, that …..." Lord Liddle - View Speech
"My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, whose brand of Conservative politics I have always personally admired. He raises very important questions about the steel industry. However, I will make just two points. First, I agree that there is a case for a …..." Lord Liddle - View Speech