European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

My Lords—

No! Keep going.

At paragraph 4 of their guidelines, they say that it is the UK’s positions,

“which limit th...

My Lords—

No!

I say yes. I think that the noble Lord has agreed to give way and I am very grateful. My point is...

It has not been moved yet.

What I have to say may affect the decision as to whether or not to move it. My question is specif...

My Lords, the noble Lord should be allowed to develop his arguments. The amendment is not on the ...

Perhaps I may continue. I recall no debate at all at the time of the referendum on a customs unio...

I simply wanted to ask for information on the wording of the amendment, which requires the Govern...

Am I allowed to respond? I thank the noble Lord for his question. The Government would be require...

I am delighted to second the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, and I will seek to do ...

My Lords, I hope that noble Lords will forgive my confusion about a technical matter. The amendme...

My Lords, I support Amendment 1, moved so persuasively by the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, and Amendmen...

My Lords, both the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, and my noble friend Lord Patten made extremely powerful...

My Lords, I listened to the noble Lords, Lord Kerr and Lord Patten, with much interest and even p...

My Lords, the noble Lords, Lord Howarth and Lord Lamont, have given the other side of the argumen...

My Lords, many of the arguments we have heard on these amendments almost boil down to saying that...

My Lords—

I thought there were to be no interventions.

I just want to ask the noble Lord where he gets his idea that being in a customs union with the E...

Middle stump!

The European Union has an external tariff. It applies to not all products from Africa, admittedly...

I defer to the noble Viscount in his knowledge of millionaires. Maybe he is right, maybe he is wr...

My Lords, I am not quite sure exactly what this amendment means, in spite of the eloquent speeche...

My Lords, perhaps I may correct briefly my noble friend who has just sat down. When he referred t...

My Lords, I am a signatory to the amendment and would like to speak to it. The Government’s paper...

My Lords—

My Lords—

Front Bench!

I am most grateful to the noble Baroness. I will keep my remarks very brief. Whoever sent me the ...

Oh!

Yes, it is. The people set out very clearly that they wished to leave the European Union, which m...

Oh!

This is a debate. If I may, I will pick up one point as a point of information to my noble friend...

I am so delighted that I gave way to the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, because he has exposed that it...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure for me to resume our debate after the Easter Recess. I hope that...

I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this fascinating debate. Some made speeches that w...

Moved by

The Earl of Sandwich

6: Clause 1, page 1, line 3, at end insert—

“(2) ...

My Lords, in proposing Amendment 6, I would like to remind noble Lords that in Committee the nobl...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support the noble Earl, Lord Sandwich, and I was happy to add my name...

My Lords, I added my name to the amendment because it is very much in the interests of both donor...

My Lords, I support the amendment on behalf of the Opposition. As we have heard in the debate so ...

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to respond to Amendment 6—tabled by the noble Earl, L...

I thank the Minister very much for her response. I am obviously not going to put the amendment to...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

8: After Clause 2, insert the following new C...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 8, which stands in my name and those of the noble Baroness, Lady Sm...

My Lords, I too have added my name to the amendment. It has been suggested that some amendments m...

My Lords, I intervene briefly to support Amendment 8, moved by the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh ...

My Lords, as has been said, this is an issue for which the Government simply have to produce a so...

My Lords, I begin by apologising to the House, and to the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, for not ...

That is a very tempting offer. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of Newnham, and the noble L...

Moved by

Lord Patel

9: Clause 3, page 2, line 30, at end insert—

“( ) For the p...

My Lords, I thank those who have put their names to my amendment: the noble and learned Lords, Lo...

My Lords, it may help if I speak now and then allow other noble Lords to comment: that might help...

My Lords, I have had the privilege of being involved in this sort of question for some time. Clin...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her very full response to the amendment moved by my noble frie...

My Lords, I join everyone in thanking the Minister—the noble Baroness, Lady Goldie—and indeed the...

My Lords, briefly, I thank everybody who has spoken but particularly the Minister for the way in ...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

11: After Clause 3, insert the following new...

My Lords, I hope that perhaps we might get some more concessions like that one. No? I thought it ...

My Lords, it is not often in your Lordships’ House that I have been at odds with the noble Barone...

My Lords, I rise as a co-signatory to this amendment briefly to support what the noble Baroness, ...

My Lords, as one of the signatories to this amendment and, indeed, a signatory to the previous am...

My Lords, I am one of the signatories to this amendment. As other noble Lords have said, it is ab...

My Lords, all I would say is that the key words in this important amendment are simply “except by...

My Lords, I did not move my Amendment 11A because the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, had already re...

My Lords, we now reach a point that has been of considerable interest throughout the Bill’s passa...

If this amendment is accepted, will it prevent the passage of the Minister’s amendment that cover...

No, I do not think they are mutually exclusive. I think the amendments can both stand.

I thank the Minister for his clear answer today. I wish the amendments he drafted were equally cl...

Moved by

Lord Deben

12: Clause 4, leave out Clause 4 and insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, the proposal here is to overcome the problem that arises under this present law, as pre...

My Lords, I support Amendment 12, to which my name has been added, and the comments of the noble ...

My Lords, I support the amendment spoken to by the noble Lord, Lord Deben, but I will comment bri...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to this amendment, to which I have added my name. There is little ...

My Lords, in supporting this amendment also, I start by just noting one thing we have learned dur...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Brown of Cambridge, in absentia for her Amend...

I apologise for interrupting the Minister and thank her for allowing me to do so. Would it be so ...

Perhaps I can, with my next contribution, enlighten the noble Baroness about her concern. However...

I am sorry to have heard what my noble friend—especially this particular noble friend—has said in...

Moved by

Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws

14: After Clause 4, insert the following new C...

My Lords, many Members of this House will remember that I have raised the issue of matters concer...

My Lords, I start by apologising for arriving a moment after the noble Baroness had started speak...

My Lords, I am certainly interested in family law, and have been for some time, but this amendmen...

I do not know whether I am entitled to interrupt someone who speaks subsequent to me, but I want ...

I think the noble Baroness has demonstrated the truth of what I am saying: namely, that she is co...

I am terribly sorry to interrupt the noble and learned Lord when he has already been interrupted,...

I take what the noble Lord is saying, but such a report would not be dealing with subsection (1)....

My Lords, if I may, I want to make a brief comment that I should like to have made in Committee b...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Kennedy is simply asking that the Minister publish within six mont...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Kennedy of The Shaws for a characteristically imp...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of The Shaws, for raising this important issue...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response. I want to make clear the purpose of both these a...