European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

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Might noble Lords be referring to the mixed metaphor they have just heard?

May I proceed to split an infinitive?

The new arrangements must be achieved in partnership ...

Moved by

Lord Griffiths of Burry Port

302B: Clause 11, in subsection (2), in inserted...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 302B I shall speak also to Amendments 302C and 302G, which seek to ...

I am following the noble Lord’s argument very carefully. Will he explain why he is content with t...

While I will have a word to say in a moment about the use of the word veto, I will not claim to k...

It was the Council of Ministers.

I beg your pardon. I think the mistake is evidence of the fact that I am not qualified to answer ...

With due respect to the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, not for the first time he is wrong about this. ...

I am delighted to receive that help from behind me, and also to hear from alongside me that, when...

What the noble Lord, Lord Hain, is saying is perfectly correct. My question to him was why they w...

I thank the noble Lord. I have long since learned that perfection is not my strongest suit. I rem...

Perhaps I could help the noble Lord. In the circumstances my noble friend Lord Forsyth expresses,...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness. Because I am where I am, I am equally certain that the ...

My Lords, my Amendment 318A is in this group. As your Lordships know, I am a lawyer, but I have a...

I am very interested in this concept, which my noble and learned friend is putting forward, that ...

I am not suggesting that for a minute. I am suggesting that what is required is a single market w...

My Lords, I tabled Amendment 318AA as an amendment to the amendment in the name of the noble and ...

Will the noble Lord allow me to remind him that the Scottish Parliament had great difficulty in p...

I have no doubt it had difficulty in passing it. None the less, the objective was a very valid on...

I am sure my noble friend will agree with this point. Mention has been made of Scottish whisky—Sc...

Not only do I agree with my noble friend but I will surprise the Committee by reminding him that ...

The noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, correctly said that the European Commission objected. But in fact t...

Indeed—which shows the importance of the health and social agenda that underpinned the initiative...

The amendment includes the proposition that if the panel “consider it necessary”, they may refer ...

I note what the noble Lord says. All I would say in response is that, in the context of a single ...

My Lords, I speak to Amendments 318B, 318C, 318D and 318E, which, it does not take a lot of worki...

In spite of being a Tory.

In spite of being a Tory; that is right. He has been constrained by Whitehall in getting decision...

My Lords, the noble Lord is clearly very expert on this process and when these meetings were held...

I have no idea; maybe the Government can help. What I can tell the noble Lord is that when I was ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 302BA, 312 and 318 in my name, but I shall start by speakin...

I am most grateful to the noble and learned Lord for giving way. He referred to the noble Lord, L...

There are lots of questions there from the noble Lord, Lord Dykes. First, as a member of a party ...

My Lords, I have been very critical of the way that both the Government and the Scottish Governme...

My Lords, after roaming around the various amendments to the government amendment, I would like t...

Even accepting the noble Lord’s criticism of the nationalist Government in Edinburgh, can I just ...

I take note of what the noble Lord says, though I have to say that I have heard information from ...

With respect, I am saddened to hear the noble Lord get on to this grievance and feeling against t...

My Lords, I too regret having to refer to the behaviour of the Scottish National Party and its co...

My Lords, the noble Lord is a former chairman of the Constitution Committee, but he is perhaps do...

I agree that progress has to be made, but progress is not made by constantly agreeing to give leg...

My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, I am slightly confused. He said that he supports the g...

Of course I agree with my Front Bench, and I have already commended it for its willingness to wit...

I shall speak briefly to the amendment proposed by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Cla...

Will the noble Lord allow me to take the opportunity to say that, as he will remember, there is p...

The noble and learned Lord’s intervention is most helpful. Of course, the language of proposed su...

I concur entirely, in that I hope the amendment tabled by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay...

It is a question of judgment. The mechanism that the noble Lord suggests may achieve the objectiv...

My Lords, I feel a bit like somebody from Relate. I am a Cross-Bencher, I am not a lawyer, and I ...

My Lords, I have never known a Government make such efforts to meet the arguments that have been ...

Oh!

That is an open admission of it. As I look at the amendment, I think, “Who will speak for England...

It tells you.

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My noble and learned friend says that it tells me. Yes, it tells me that it is the Secretary of S...

I have heard the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, say on several occasions in these debates on Brexit in...

The noble Lord is talking nonsense—codswallop in fact—in the context of fishing because the posit...

Plenty of countries around the world that enter into international treaties have internal mechani...

I will return to my copy of this important text and will be in touch with the noble Lord in that ...

Does the noble Lord accept that some of the frustration that has built up, certainly in Cardiff, ...

I do not know the detail. I do know that a number of the joint ministerial meetings were cancelle...

My Lords—

May I just answer the noble Lord before I deal with the noble Lord, Lord Thomas?

I understa...

The noble Lord has just outlined a dispute resolution system of which he was part. He said that t...

If the noble Lord had listened to the first part of my speech, I explained who would speak for En...

Oh!

I hear tittering in the background. Does the noble Lord wish to intervene?

It is a huge ste...

My Lords, I will make a few comments in this somewhat bizarre debate on the government amendments...

I do not want to detain the Committee for very long; I will make just one or two points. First, I...

My Lords, we sit here week after week and, wherever we started our careers, we cannot help but lo...

I am grateful. I think the noble Baroness might have misunderstood me. The point I was making was...

I resist the idea that I ever deliberately misrepresent anything. However, I am very aware that, ...

My Lords, the hazard of speaking late in a debate is that, in the interests of brevity, you have ...

My Lords, I think that many in your Lordships’ House will welcome the interesting and constructiv...

My Lords, I am glad to agree with the noble Lord, Lord Hain, on the point that he has just made. ...

At this late hour, that is probably a debate for another occasion, but I welcome at least the fir...

My Lords, the Bill received assent today.

With the help of the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, we can put on the record the fact that the B...

I welcome the proposal just made by my noble friend Lord Hain, because two versions of it have be...

I completely agree with my noble friend; he spelt it out very clearly.

At the same time, th...

Perhaps I may reinforce what the noble Lord said. He said that Report stage was still some time a...

I welcome what the noble and learned Lord has said. If it really is not possible to work up such ...

My Lords, I applaud the spirit in which the Government have brought forward the amendments before...

Sometimes devolved Ministers are there on their own.

I accept that and I stand corrected.

I absolutely endorse the description by the noble Baroness of the way consent works in that situa...

That is the point I am trying to make. It may be helpful if I conclude by asking the Minister a q...

My Lords, the veterans of devolution legislation—and I have sat through all the Acts, both Scotti...

My Lords, I know the Committee wants to move on but I will make just a couple of brief points—in ...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly indeed, in strong support of the government amendments, to ma...

The noble Earl may know that the Scottish Parliament rejected my suggestion that it should have a...

I did. I will send my job application in.

I feel that we must have regard to that issue. I ...

Before the noble Earl sits down, I would like to pick up the point that was made to him at lunch....

I am very grateful to the noble Lord for making a jolly good point very well. At the lunch, that ...

I join many noble Lords in congratulating the Government on the way they have handled this issue ...

Minister.

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My Lords, are you sure? I do not think there is any need to rush this. We have covered a lot of g...

They go to Brussels.

I reassure the noble Lord, Lord Newby, that the roads do not go to Brussels any more. However, he...