European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

My Lords, I should inform the House that if this amendment is agreed to, I will be unable to call...

My Lords, I agree very much with what the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, has said about the charter in...

My Lords, I am a remainer, but I am one despite—not because of—the charter. To leave the EU but n...

My Lords, two main arguments have been put forward today and in Committee for writing the Charter...

My Lords, if I may, I will give another non-legal observation. It is a pleasure to follow the nob...

My Lords, I support the amendment and would like to return to three points that I raised in Commi...

My Lords, there are good legal reasons to oppose this group of amendments. I will be brief. I sha...

The noble Baroness just gave a number of instances where she said the charter was of no use. That...

The noble Baroness makes a very good point as to why the retention of the charter would not be of...

My Lords, the arguments in favour of the amendment seem to come down to two. One is that we are l...

My Lords, I may offer a slightly different opinion on our discussion. It is really interesting as...

Can the noble Lord explain why the Equality Act 2010, with a very comprehensive list of non-discr...

Because in rights newly achieved we can never have too much challenge or support for a principle ...

My Lords, of course we should recognise those who have made sacrifices for us in the past, and at...

My Lords, I hold the legal profession in high esteem. However, in Committee, it was obvious to me...

My Lords, I will say a few words about this amendment. First, it is important to notice that the ...

I very rarely disagree with the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, and there is a very good reason for tha...

My Lords, I put on record my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Howarth of Newport, with whose argume...

My Lords, I must have explained myself poorly in my intervention on the noble Baroness, Lady Deec...

My Lords, I think that we are probably reaching the end of the debate.

I am just concluding my remarks. I want simply to support what was said by the noble Baroness, La...

My Lords—

My Lords—

Front Bench.

My Lords, I take the sense of the House to be that the Front Benches should now speak. The noble ...

On the point made by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, is the noble and learned Lord, Lord ...

It is always good to have a second argument when you are in front of the noble and learned Lord, ...

Perhaps, then, we had better find out what “the sovereignty of Parliament” means.

I come back to the central point I want to make. The Government made it clear and promised that r...

Would the noble and learned Lord agree that what is special about this is that the judges of the ...

I am advised that that is not a request for clarification which is appropriate on Report. I have ...

Experience, dear boy.

I will listen attentively to what the Minister says, of course, but I do not anticipate that we w...

My Lords, I thank all your Lordships for an interesting debate which has addressed some of the is...

Oh!

Why should I say that? Let us be clear: the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union a...

Oh!

There we go.

The next stage is to say that we as a Parliament do not trust our ability to h...

If the charter is incorporated, does it not become retained EU law? Therefore, it would be subjec...

With great respect to the noble Lord, just because the charter is made part of retained EU law in...

My Lords, this has been a powerful and passionate debate and I thank all noble Lords who have spo...

My Lords, Amendment 15 having been agreed to, I cannot call Amendment 16 due to pre-emption.

Moved by

Baroness Lister of Burtersett

17: After Clause 5, insert the following new C...

My Lords, Amendment 17 simply requires the Government: first, to report to Parliament on developm...

I underline my noble friend’s point about the enthusiasm with which the Minister told us in Commi...

I shall speak to the amendment, to which I have added my name. I urge my noble friend the Ministe...

My Lords, the contributions from my noble friends Lady Lister and Lady Crawley and the noble Baro...

I thank the noble Baronesses for their contributions. I believe, and am comfortable saying, that ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to those who have spoken in support of the amendment, particularly t...

Moved by

Lord Warner

17A: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause—

“Pub...

My Lords, I will move Amendment 17A in my name and those of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, and the no...

I have some points which may be helpful to make at this moment, before the full discussion gets u...

My Lords, I had the privilege of hearing the noble Lord, Lord Warner, explain the position in Com...

My Lords, it is most helpful that the Minister has given a reassurance and further clarified the ...

My Lords, I shall speak very briefly. I totally agree with what the noble Baroness has just said....

My Lords, this has been a short but very interesting debate. The noble Baroness, Lady Jolly, real...

This has been a short debate but an instructive one. I am somewhat sorry that we have not had lon...

Perhaps I may ask the Minister to clarify what he said about providing no comfort. Speaking for t...

My Lords, perhaps I may break the rules of Report and intervene. The Government have said repeate...

I very much agree with the point that the noble and learned Lord has made. It may not be within t...

For the good of my own health, we will reflect on this matter and we will be able to come back to...

Well, my Lords, if you just sit here, things work themselves out. I am grateful to the Minister f...

Moved by

Lord Beith

18: Schedule 1, page 16, leave out lines 11 to 15

I beg to move an amendment that I regard as, in broad terms if not technically, consequential on ...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

19: Schedule 1, page 16, line 21, leave out paragraph 3

My Lords, we debated Amendment 19 earlier. I remind the House that it would remove the provision ...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

21: Clause 6, page 3, line 34, leave out subsection (2) and ins...

My Lords, Amendment 21 is in my name and those of the noble and learned Lords, Lord Goldsmith and...

My Lords, I should inform the House that if either Amendment 21 or Amendment 22 is agreed to, I c...

My Lords—

My Lords, I wonder whether, with the permission of the House, I might respond to the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, the genesis of this debate is at least in part the evidence that the former President a...

My Lords, I will make one or two observations, having raised this matter on Second Reading. I am ...

My Lords, we have the luxury of having three different formulations for a possible amendment to C...

My Lords, it was obvious from contributions at Second Reading and in Committee that this was a pa...

My Lords, I shall give a brief layman’s perspective. Being brief, I shall follow the advice of th...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Spicer, has made a very interesting observation, but it seems to g...

My Lords, I am obliged to noble Lords for the contributions that have been made. With respect to ...

I thank the Minister for giving the assurances that I sought on each of the four points that I ra...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie

23: Clause 6, page 3, line 34, at beginning insert “Subjec...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

26: After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause—

“St...

My Lords, the way in which retained EU law will be treated in our domestic statute book—what has ...

My Lords, your Lordships’ Constitution Committee recommended at paragraph 51 of our report—HL 69—...

My Lords, my Amendment 39 is buried among the government amendments in this group. I will speak t...

My Lords, I thought the Minister was a little harsh on the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, and on th...

My Lords, I think three things emerge from that. First, there is a recognition, with thanks, that...

My Lords, I can be very brief in the light of the debate. I thank all noble Lords who have contri...

My Lords, I thought that when my noble friend nodded in assent to the noble and learned Lord, Lor...

I wanted to move the amendments now. I am happy to reflect further if any points are identified i...

I was asking the Minister whether he was prepared to leave these amendments to be moved at Third ...

Yes, I am happy to provide that assurance. As I said, it was a long and detailed speech on this a...

Forgive me; would he accept that amendments could be made even to these amendments? I am not sugg...

I accept that, yes.

Moved by

Baroness Brown of Cambridge

27: After Clause 6, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, I move this amendment on behalf of the noble Lords, Lord Deben and Lord Inglewood, the ...

My Lords, as much as by anything else, I was prompted to sign the amendment because I was unclear...

My Lords, the Government have been very clear in their promises, and this has helped many in thei...

My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 27 and to fully support the comments of the noble Baroness,...

My Lords, there are plenty of people around to go into the Lobbies tonight, so it is terribly imp...

My Lords, I rise very briefly to give strong support to this amendment and assert the need for an...

I think it is obvious that I rise in support of Amendments 27, 28 and 41. In Committee, there wer...

My Lords, Amendment 41 is in my name and those of the noble Lords, Lord Judd and Lord Wigley. I h...

My Lords, I strongly associate myself with what my noble friend just said, which is why my name i...

I thank the noble Lord. I think the House would welcome specific attention to the amendment in th...

With great respect, I am, of course, speaking to my own amendment. If we are to protect the UK fr...

My Lords, I support Amendment 27, as moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Brown of Cambridge, Amendm...

My Lords, I strongly support Amendment 27. There is a stark warning before your Lordships’ House ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 27. I feel some sympathy for the Minister but it is slightly bizarr...

My Lords, I support Amendment 27 and will speak to Amendment 41. I will explain, as my noble frie...

My Lords, we welcome the sentiments behind Amendment 27, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Brown...

Before the Minister moves on from the issue of future relations with the agency, can he address o...

That is not part of the amendment we are discussing, but I am happy to provide the noble Lord wit...

I am very pleased with what my noble friend said about the environmental principles and the like,...

Yes, we are saying that we will be able to address this issue again after noble Lords have had a ...

I thank the very many noble Lords who have spoken and contributed to the debate, all supporting t...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

29: After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, in moving this amendment I stress that the EU’s useful and largely intergovernmental st...

My Lords, Amendment 29 is also in my name. I would like to say that I agree entirely with my nobl...

My Lords, I thank our noble friends on the Liberal Benches for having put this amendment forward....

My Lords, in 1982 the amazing unanimity of the Security Council in favour of the British position...

The noble Lords who have tabled this amendment have an important point. I want to add a postscrip...

My Lords, there is always something very special about hearing history from those who are not rea...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, for bringing attention to th...

My Lords, I regret that that is an extremely unsatisfactory answer. To say that shared values wil...

Moved by

Baroness Ludford

30: After Clause 6, insert the following new Clause—

...

I find myself in a similar position, in moving this amendment on behalf of myself, my noble frien...

My Lords, in warmly supporting this amendment, I will make only two points. First, crime is now g...

My Lords, I support Amendment 30, which seeks to ensure that before exit day all necessary action...

My Lords, I will speak to this amendment, to which I have added my name. I have spoken to former ...

My Lords, it is really hard to overstate the importance of the issues raised this evening or, ind...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, for raising the important issues dea...

The Minister has answered only one part of the question—whether it would be possible that we woul...

It is certainly our intention but, as I have said, these are bilateral relationships and the disc...

I am quite cross, really. With all respect to the Minister, that is a disrespectful response. Twe...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

30A: After Clause 6, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 30A in my name and those of the noble Lord, Lord Low of Dalston...

My Lords, despite the Government’s political commitment that equality rights that currently come ...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace, and the noble Lord, Lord Low, have made a str...

My Lords, I added my name to this amendment but too late for it to be printed in the Marshalled L...

My Lords, one of the privileges I had when I served as Attorney-General was to be able to see gov...

I thank noble Lords for their time and consideration on the important issue of how we maintain ou...

The Minister should not tempt me. I am grateful to him for his reply, which was probably a bit mo...