European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

My Lords, I support these amendments, and in particular Amendment 5. The amendment proposed by th...

I think that the noble Lord is addressing Amendment 5, which is not in this group—and I shall no ...

I am pleased to stand corrected and apologise.

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 136, which is in my name alone. Clause 1 is the crux of the B...

The noble Baroness is herself a distinguished lawyer, and she has raised one of the critical issu...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, but he places too great an emphasis on my legal abilities. I pre...

My Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 6, one of the earlier amendments in the group. It would...

My Lords, to take up the theme of the noble Lord, Lord Newby, yesterday I went to 100 Parliament ...

My Lords, I begin with an apology to your Lordships’ House. Because of professional engagements I...

I agree with my noble friend entirely about putting the country before party. He mentioned that n...

It is the business of Parliament to form a judgment. We will come to other debates fairly soon—in...

My Lords, I wish to address Amendments 152, 197 and 206, on the matter of the customs union. Befo...

Would it not be true to say that the sovereign Parliament gave the people the decision through th...

My Lords, as I have explained, I do not accept that we are in any way under instruction from anyb...

My Lords—

I will not give way for the moment; I would like to make a bit of progress.

I agree with th...

My Lords, I had not intended to speak in this debate but since it seems that no one else is going...

Perhaps I could make a suggestion to the noble Lord. If he were to go to 100 Parliament Street an...

There are calculations that say that. No doubt when the noble Baroness comes to make her speech, ...

Oh!

Noble Lords jeer but are they really going to say that a piece of paper with a statistic somehow ...

My Lords—

I assume this is not a point of order but a point of information.

I am grateful to the noble Lord and would like to give a point of information to him. We already ...

I do not know whether the noble Lord misheard me, whether I misspoke or whether he misunderstood....

My Lords—

I would like to make a little more progress, as this is taking rather a long time. The rules of o...

Does my noble friend not agree with me and the noble Lord, Lord Davies, on animal hygiene? Given ...

Even in Northern Ireland, we have some checks already. There will have to be checks, as there are...

My Lords—

I would like to finish a sentence without being interrupted. The EU negotiates free trade agreeme...

The noble Lord referred to Turkey twice. On the first occasion when he referred to Turkey he said...

As the noble Lord knows very well, Turkey aspires—that aspiration may now be fading—to join the E...

On the customs union, as a pro-European in his youth, the noble Lord will be aware that the custo...

I am sure the noble Lord is not intentionally misleading the House when he talks about the argume...

My Lords, I am supporting and have added my name to Amendment 206 in the name of the noble Barone...

Does the noble Lord recall that we made very good progress in the European Union in trying to neg...

Well, we have worked for a long time to do a free trade deal with India, and it is in the offing....

My Lords, I will speak in greater length on the second group but I want to touch on just a few po...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Newby and the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, spoke of Kafka in the base...

My Lords, I had intended to intervene after an hour to don a Wigan shirt against the Manchester C...

My Lords—

I have only just begun. I will give way later to the noble Lord. If I may continue this section o...

This is material to what the noble Lord is saying.

I will give way to the noble Lord later if he is kind and polite and stops interrupting. I will p...

For those of us who sat through nearly 180 speeches at Second Reading, it is rather galling, when...

My Lords, the noble Lord goes directly to the point. He wishes to know why I was unable to be her...

Oh!

I was honouring an engagement. It was not a social engagement: I was teaching medieval Greek cult...

My Lords—

If I may, I will continue. The noble Lord has asked me not to talk too much. Let us have a debate...

No!

It passed the parliamentary rules. If a Bill goes through the other Chamber, it must be construed...

My Lords, if these amendments were adopted by the Government, it is possible that there would be ...

My Lords, in 1997, I—together with other Members of this House, including, I recall, the noble Lo...

Does the noble Lord recall Mr Boris Johnson’s riposte to the Prime Minister? He said, “Nobody is ...

The noble Lord has a much better memory than me: no, I do not. But then I do not agree with every...

Does the noble Lord accept that the analysis he has just been talking about was a cross-governmen...

Of course it was put together by civil servants. I have worked with civil servants and I rate the...

Will the noble Lord give way?

Of course; how could I resist?

Will the noble Lord tell us whether he agrees with those Conservatives who, in the past week, hav...

That is slightly off the current debate, but no, I do not. I think that the Good Friday agreement...

What would the noble Lord like to move on to?

This is nothing to do with what we are speaking about. I am not sure whether the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, I intervene at this stage because it is important noble Lords know that the European Un...

Can the noble Baroness tell the House what happened before the Republic of Ireland and the United...

Is the noble Lord at all aware of the number of times there were bombings of customs posts? Is he...

Can I ask the noble Baroness a couple of questions about the border? Does she think it is an extr...

I could not agree more with the underlying sentiments that have just been expressed by the noble ...

The answer to the noble Lord’s question is that we joined the European Union at the same time as ...

I should explain that the European Union Select Committee has just been in Brussels—in fact, we r...

Before the noble Baroness finally finishes, is there not a slightly troubling aspect to this? I t...

It is the very opposite. It is the fact that peace has been secured. That is one of the great ach...

My Lords, I wonder whether it might not be an idea to hear from the Minister at this stage. I hav...

My Lords, I do not think that the noble Lord should intervene to cut short this debate. There are...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 89 to which I had the privilege of adding my name. I want to...

Perhaps I may make a brief point. The noble Baroness is absolutely right about India. What is mis...

The answer that I give to the noble Lord, Lord Green, is one that would be given by many people i...

My Lords, at this stage of the debate and with the indulgence of the Committee, I wish to return ...

I declare my interest as in the register: I am a businessman. I would love to lock horns with the...

Oh!

Is he not respected by the Labour Party? I thought he was. He went on to warn that we would be so...

That is simply untrue. The position of these Benches has been that the House of Lords has a very ...

The noble Lord did not see behind him, but there were some signs of affirmation there when I said...

If the noble Lord had listened to the speech I made, he would know that I accept the fact that th...

That has been thoroughly debated. I think people did understand; certainly, people in Cumbria und...

I am prepared to lock horns with the noble Lord on Amendment 206, which I support. I have some qu...

My Lords, I support Amendments 6, 7, 162, 197 and others, regarding protecting our position in th...

I am awfully sorry, but I hope my noble friend has read the Conservative manifesto, which, in onl...

Oh!

Not enough, but a staggering number.

My noble friend Lord Lamont and others have said that other countries manage without being in the...

Could my noble friend tell me which country is more integrated with the EU: Switzerland or Britai...

The industrial success of the British economy is based on the integrated supply chains. The jobs ...

My Lords, I have three amendments in this group, Amendments 4, 152 and 225, but I broadly support...

Would my noble friend not agree that perhaps the most irresponsible aspect of the remarks that ha...

My Lords, I could not agree more with my noble friend, nor with all those other noble Lords who h...

My Lords, I cannot match the dazzling intellectual exposition of the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, but...

If we have another referendum on the question of whether we should leave the European Union, to m...

As many of the noble Lord’s soulmates often say, it would actually be a third referendum—so you p...

The noble Baroness talked about patronising the British people. I think that all politicians are ...

Actually, there is growing support in the opinion polls for people taking control themselves. I t...

My Lords, this has been a valuable and, indeed, an enjoyable debate, but it is particularly impor...

My Lords, it is a great honour to contribute to the first day in Committee on this historic Bill....

Will the Government publish the legal advice they have had in respect of that proposed procedure ...

The noble Lord knows the answer to that question.

Oh!

We are not going to publish confidential legal advice. That has been the position of previous Gov...

I—

No, I have given way to the noble Lord once. I have answered his question. I have referred to his...

My Lords—

Order!

If I can have silence, may I address the Chamber? It is important that this debate proceeds, even...

He has taken one intervention so far.

I think the Minister can use his own discretion about what he considers appropriate. I do not thi...

If I may say so, the Minister has limited experience of this House. He may not be aware that in C...

I responded to the noble Lord’s question about the legal advice and to the other points that have...

My noble friend has been most gracious in replying to one part of my question, but not the other ...

I understand that the regulations of the EEA will continue during the implementation period. For ...

There were a number of other questions, such as the one I raised on regulations, that are absolut...

My Lords, there is a huge amount of work being done by various economists, lobby groups, institut...

The Minister puzzled me slightly just then by saying that once the implementation phase—that piec...

With great respect to the noble Lord, I do not think I said that we would preserve the present re...

I do not feel that any of my questions were addressed. I apologise to the Committee, but I have t...

My Lords, I thought we were here to discuss the Bill. We have spent three hours and 20 minutes de...

I apologise; I will make another attempt because I do not feel that I am making my questions unde...

I am sure that the statements made by the Secretaries of State in the other place are true and va...

My Lords, the Minister was on his feet for just 12 minutes dealing with a debate that had taken o...

I realise that. I apologise if the noble Lord is disappointed but I was trying to address what is...

I am sorry to say this, but the amendments were taken by the Public Bill Office as being in scope...

My Lords, before the Minister finishes after the very short intervention that he has just made, I...

I am happy to clarify for the noble Lord that we remain completely committed to the Good Friday a...

My noble friend has been accused of not being very experienced. I point out to those Members oppo...

My Lords, since we have come to the end of this interesting debate, as the mover of the first ame...

Moved by

Lord Adonis

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 3, leave out “on exit day” and insert ...

My Lords, I shall also speak to Amendment 3, which would leave out “on exit day” and insert,

My Lords, having added my name to the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Adonis, I wa...

My Lords, the noble Lord concluded his remarks by saying, effectively, that it should be Parliame...

My Lords, I want to make clear my unequivocal support for the last three speeches. The critical i...

My Lords, I do not wish to emulate either the forensic skill or the eloquence of those who have a...

My Lords, I am somewhat confused by this debate because it has been suggested that the Government...

My Lords, we have heard some excellent speeches on these amendments. I particularly commend the b...

My Lords, the noble Lord opposite who just spoke constantly makes disparaging references to membe...

I should like to respond briefly to what the noble Lord, Lord True, has said. He refers to the Ar...

If the House of Commons voted by an overwhelming majority to move Article 50, surely that was don...

Perhaps I may ask a question for elucidation—I may have missed something. The noble Lord, Lord Ad...

I would like to offer an addendum to what the noble Lord has said. In a way, it is a response to ...

Perhaps I may ask the noble Lord, Lord Kerr—the supreme oracle on Article 50—a question which, ag...

I would like to follow that up with a relevant question to the noble Lord, Lord Kerr. I agree wit...

To respond simply to the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, it would be a political issue, not a legal or a...

It is very interesting that the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, has added a fifth element to the dandeli...

My Lords, this issue is linked to those under Clauses 9 and 14 about the withdrawal agreement and...

My first question to the Minister is: why did the Government slot in the calendar date at Committ...

I am sorry to disappoint the noble Baroness, but we will be having a number of Brexit Bills, not ...

I am grateful to the Minister for seeking to clarify the point about process, and I take on board...

Yes, I am giving the noble Lord an assurance that the normal timescale of the affirmative procedu...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister and to all noble Lords who have spoken. We will need...