European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

My Lords, I support this excellent amendment, because it would create a duty to ensure that any g...

My Lords, I support Amendment 214, to which I have attached my name. I am not sure whether attach...

In supporting this amendment, I wish to emphasise an aspect on which noble Lords who have spoken ...

I would like to question that intervention. I think that common standards can be a bad thing for ...

If I may say so, the noble Lord has just shown the real objective of people who support Brexit. I...

My Lords, I object strongly to that comment about people who support Brexit supporting a lowering...

My Lords, I had not intended to intervene on this amendment but I am slightly provoked by my nobl...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Haskel has raised some important issues, which we should carefully...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Haskel, for tabling this amendment. I believe the intentio...

Norway is in the single market. That is why it has to uphold the same standards, and Switzerland ...

Switzerland is not de facto in the single market. Switzerland has a multiplicity of agreements wi...

Is my noble and learned friend saying that we are now seeking an EU/Swiss-style agreement?

I am not suggesting that for a moment. I was saying that these matters will be the subject of neg...

Before my noble friend responds, will the Minister give an assurance as to this? He has talked ab...

Clearly, the noble and learned Lord has misrepresented to an extent what I just said to the House...

Can the noble and learned Lord clarify the position on the provisions, which the Government will ...

My Lords, with respect, I fear that I do not properly understand the question posed by the noble ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their support for the amendment and I thank the noble Baron...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

220: After Clause 9, insert the following ne...

My Lords, Amendment 220 seeks to draw the Minister’s attention to what we risk losing if the Gove...

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, from these Benches. I would...

My Lords, does the Minister agree that this particular set of issues is absolutely crucial to sma...

My Lords, I share the concerns that the amendment raises about the consequences of failing to mai...

My Lords, I do not think that I have ever called the noble and learned Lord “not the appropriate ...

Moved by

Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws

222: After Clause 9, insert the following new ...

My Lords, the amendment would insert a new clause that required the Government to report to Parli...

My Lords, I support both amendments but my brief remarks will mainly concern Amendment 224. There...

I support these two amendments. As the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, pointed out, after exit day,...

My Lords, I support the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy. I am concerned about...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 222. Human trafficking is one of the great global scourges of...

My Lords, I want to say one or two words, not least because I thought it might be appropriate to ...

That was a very nicely put apology.

It is important to remind ourselves that European polic...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Russell, for his very gracious apology, and I am sure that...

Does the Minister mean to say that the safeguards contained in the European protection order will...

I am merely saying that we are committed to that convention and the provisions contained within i...

One word that has not been used at all in this debate is “reciprocity”. It is crucial in this are...

When the noble Baroness looks at Hansard, I should be very grateful if she could address the spec...

I must say that I listened to both noble Baronesses with great care.

My Lords, I will of course withdraw my amendment. I was rather disappointed not to have more from...

Moved by

Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws

223: After Clause 9, insert the following new ...

My Lords, Amendment 223 is about the enforcement arrangements, which rely on reciprocity, whereby...

My Lords, I support the amendment. Anyone who has been an MP in the other place will know from th...

My Lords, from bitter experience as a family judge, I am aware how difficult it is for the mother...

Will the existing Hague convention on maintenance cover the situation? From what I have learned t...

I say to the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, that her neighbour, the noble and learned Baroness, Lady...

My Lords, I again thank the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, for raising a very important issue, the...

My Lords, I think the Minister again for her sensitive response to this matter. The reason for as...

Moved by

Lord Wigley

226: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause—

“Ref...

My Lords, this amendment standing in my name seeks to introduce a new clause to enable a confirma...

Has not the Supreme Court confirmed in a ruling precisely what the noble Lord is saying: that whi...

Yes indeed; it is of course finally a matter for Parliament to decide what should happen. The pro...

My Lords, I speak primarily to Amendment 227BH. It is identical to Amendment 181, which we agreed...

Does the noble Lord agree that what he has just said is very different from this quote from Septe...

We have had that quote umpteen times in your Lordships’ House. I will deal with it, but many peop...

Or early next year.

Or whenever it appears.

The doctrine of an unripe time is one of the most pernicious of the...

Will the noble Lord explain what is meant by revoking Article 50 or reverting to the status quo? ...

If we stopped the negotiations we would not have left the EU, so we would be in in the EU then as...

I am not short of sight, but I think I saw the noble Lord, Lord Ashdown, leaving before this amen...

My Lords, I really think that in this point in the debate it is best if people do not revert back...

My Lords, I beg leave to move Amendment 357 in my name.

My Lords, the noble Lord will not be moving his amendment at this stage: he will be speaking to i...

Well then, I will speak to it.

May I say something?

All right.

One of the interesting aspects of our country is that, unlike almost every other country in the w...

My Lords, perhaps I may put one point to my noble friend. Is he, as I am, mildly amused by the fa...

Indeed, I agree with my noble friend. What they are saying in fact could possibly mean that were ...

My Lords, is the noble Lord aware that Baroness Thatcher’s last vote in the House of Commons made...

My Lords, is it okay to speak now? I must apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Garel-Jones, for whom...

The noble Lord mentioned the possibility of European Union citizens voting in a referendum—and, o...

It is not absurd at all. It is sensible because those people are taxpayers—at least most of them ...

My Lords—

I was timing it to see how long it would be before the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, rose.

I am intrigued by the idea of the noble Lord that anyone who is a taxpayer should have a vote. Do...

A lot of Commonwealth citizens are able to vote. A lot of people have a vote—but these are Europe...

The noble Lord was advancing the proposition that if you pay taxes here, you should have a vote. ...

I was answering a question. I was talking about European Union citizens who are taxpayers here—an...

Quagmire.

Quagmire. I was trying to think of a word that implied rushing towards it like the lemmings I des...

Suicide.

I am grateful to my noble friend—this is a wonderful House, where you get so much support in so m...

My Lords, I put my name to the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Newby, when it was A...

To take the cinema analogy further, does the noble Lord not think that if the European Commission...

My Lords, I had expected that intervention. If that is the EU’s tactic, it has plenty of ways of ...

My Lords, I had the opportunity of speaking at some length last Wednesday to my Amendments 216 an...

Does the noble Viscount agree that it does not matter what the Government say, it is up to the Ho...

The noble Lord is quite right and my noble friend Lord Garel-Jones was indicating this point. Whe...

I know the affection that my noble friend has for Parliament. Could he just remind the House of t...

I think my noble friend, for whom I have the greatest respect, tempts me, and I am going to be te...

I know that my noble friend does not think much of referendums, and neither do I. I think that re...

Parliament is supreme.

My noble friend Lord Garel-Jones says that Parliament is supreme and he is entirely right. My nob...

My Lords, as a country we have only had referenda a few times in our history. This is the first t...

I am sorry to interrupt my noble colleague, who is very dear to me, but this idea that the young ...

I hear everything that my noble colleague has said and I respect him greatly. All I am reflecting...

On this theme the noble Lord is pursuing that people have the right to change their minds, how ma...

The noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, has made a point that is always made when I make this argument. But...

My Lords, this has the potential to be extremely divisive for the nation. We need a referendum to...

My Lords, how much more divided can the country be than it is now? That is what this wretched ref...

That is why we need a second referendum or a vote on the final outcome.

We do, because if what I feel will happen happens and people decide to remain in the EU, we will ...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bilimoria, as I did at Second Rea...

I remind the noble Viscount, Lord Ridley, of the words of Jacob Rees-Mogg, who has said:

“I...

I was going to quote David Cameron because I was asked for the words of a Conservative. On 10 Nov...

My noble friend really must face the possibility that Parliament will take a different view, in w...

I was under the impression that that is exactly what we are debating right here and now, and it i...

The noble Viscount just quoted David Cameron. Was that the same speech in which he said he would ...

Oh!

My Lords, I do not know the answer to that question but I can easily look it up. I will write to ...

My Lords, this whole process began with a referendum and it should therefore end with a referendu...

My Lords, the noble Lord asked a question. It would not matter what kind of deal we got if we had...

The noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, insists on calling it a second referendum. It is not. If he is so f...

The intention is clear. I am shocked, actually, at the noble Lord. He says that he is a unionist ...

I am following the noble Lord with great interest. He says that the people will be outraged if th...

I have not seen the particular poll that the noble Lord refers to but I saw the poll in the gener...

Is my noble friend saying that the Supreme Court is mistaken in this matter?

I thought I heard my noble friend argue not a few moments ago about the supremacy of Parliament. ...

I am very grateful to my noble friend and am always keen to build bridges with him. Given what he...

I have always regarded my membership of this place as giving me a free vote. Members of this Hous...

What about the vote in another place? Is my noble friend in favour, as Sir John Major suggested t...

What I am keen on is people delivering on their promises. Not only did we promise in our manifest...

You would.

The noble Lord says that I would. I would certainly not be doing that but he believes that I woul...

Perhaps I may challenge one point that the noble Lord made, which was really worrying. He said th...

The noble Lord, Lord Bilimoria, has made a great leap from what I said to what the Daily Mail sai...

Does the noble Lord recognise that the transfer from unanimity to a qualified majority was conduc...

The noble Lord, Lord Hannay, is wrong.

Address the House!

I am responding to the noble Lord’s point.

Addressing the House is not simply a matter of courtesy. When the noble Lord turns his back, we c...

From past experience, I am sure that various people would like to change places with the noble Lo...

The noble Lord has misunderstood what I said, which was that the provision in the treaty that pro...

So what? It was not a health and safety measure; it was an employment law measure. The point that...

My Lords, last week we had an interesting debate on what should happen if Parliament was given a ...

My noble friend is talking about the sovereignty of Parliament. Does he recall that just an hour ...

That is a complete travesty, a total misreading or a fundamental misunderstanding. If Parliament ...

Could I just clarify something with the noble Lord? I am very sympathetic to what he is saying, b...

A bad deal would be a deal where the trading relations with the other 27 nations of Europe are ap...

My Lords, my name was on the original amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Newby, and I now s...

I am grateful to my noble friend for giving way. Is it just possible that many of those people wh...

I am grateful to my noble friend. Of course they may well see that global world, but I think they...

I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend again. She will know that I feel very passionately about ...

I am grateful to my noble friend for reading into my remarks something that was not there. I know...

My Lords, I am tempted to reply to the vast mass of points that have been made during this debate...

I wonder if I might remind the noble Lord, Lord Higgins, that the first referendum passed by this...

My Lords—

My Lords, I think the House wants the Minister to reply, so I was thinking that we are probably r...

My Lords, this has again been an excellent debate and let me say at the outset that I note that s...

My Lords, it is that very term—“instructed” the Government or “instructed” Parliament—that is the...

My Lords, the noble Baroness says that she is not in favour of referendums but is supporting a ca...

I am not in favour of another referendum. I am in favour of parliamentary democracy and parliamen...

I am not going to continue with this debate, but I think we know where she is coming from: she wa...

I will give the noble Lord another target. He seems to be an absolutist about referendums. What a...

I am afraid that I was not old enough to vote in that referendum, but my father tells me that he ...

Will my noble friend give way?

I will make a little progress, if I may. I will take interventions later. I am on only the third ...

Is my noble friend saying that he disagrees with the ruling of the Supreme Court that although it...

Of course I do not disagree with the ruling of the Supreme Court, which is why we will have anoth...

Will my noble friend address the question put to him by the noble Lord, Lord Butler? Will the mea...

I covered this point earlier. Parliament has passed the notification of withdrawal Act, to give o...

Is that a yes or a no?

We have said that once we have negotiated the best deal available, we will bring it back to this ...

Can Parliament vote to stay in the European Union?

No, Parliament authorised us to leave the European Union under the notification of withdrawal Act...

If there is a vote in either House, particularly the House of Commons, which rejects whatever the...

In such circumstances—first, we hope that Parliament will not reject it and we will negotiate for...

Ah!

Well, as I said, under the Article 50 process, we have notified the European Union that we are le...

Would the Government equally reject a take-note Motion in the House of Commons on that matter, ev...

I am not an expert on the proceedings of the other place—I have never been a Member of the House ...

My Lords, this is a crucial moment. The whole issue here is whether it is a mere Motion or whethe...

We want a deal with the European Union. We have said that we will negotiate for the best possible...

Does my noble friend recall that both David Cameron and the leader of the Opposition wanted to im...

I am not sure that I would use the word “froth”, but we have had a good debate about this and I a...

I have a question for clarification. Is it now correct for us to interpret, when the Prime Minist...

When we have negotiated the deal it will be an extremely significant moment. We will put that dea...

Is the Minister seriously saying that it would be out of the question for the House of Commons to...

I am sorry that the noble Lord is outraged, but I am not going to stand here and try to instruct ...

I have not heard my noble friend respond to Amendment 357, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes...

I suspect that we will still be in the process of negotiations at that stage. We have been clear ...

My Lords, the House has listened to the Minister with amazement over the last 20 minutes. We have...