European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

My Lords, this amendment also bears my name and the names of other noble Lords. I will focus my b...

My Lords, my name is also on this amendment, and I wish to speak briefly on the role that this Ch...

Will the Minister address one point when summarising? Has consideration has been given to the wor...

My Lords, I have great respect for all the proposers of this amendment. It makes me all the more ...

The noble Lord is giving us the speech he gave us in the Article 50 Bill, when it was indeed the ...

If the noble Lord waits until I have concluded my remarks, I think he will be better able to form...

My Lords, as an answer to what the noble Lord, Lord Howard, has just said, the noble Viscount, Lo...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Howard of Lympne, is absolutely right to draw our attention to the...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Hailsham made an eloquent and powerful speech. If I had closed my ...

I am grateful to my noble friend for giving way—

It is Report.

It is a question, and my noble friend has not finished.

Are we learning the lessons of history? Sometimes it is very valuable to see what has happened in...

My Lords, I have listened very carefully to those noble Lords who have proposed this amendment bu...

My Lords, I have a couple of observations, one specific and the other more general. The specific ...

If my noble friend is right in every case, why did Gina Miller have to take action in the High Co...

My noble friend was not present at the time, as a number of us were, but if he is in any doubt wh...

I was.

I am sorry; it was later. My noble friend missed the boat by a few months. That was when the Hous...

They were a Labour Government.

Yes, sadly, they were a Labour Government, and my vote was not enough to enable them to survive. ...

The House of Commons is not in control of the legislative canvas—the Government are. This amendme...

I have never seen the word “canvas” in Erskine May—I do not know quite what my noble friend refer...

Surely if we in this House pass this amendment, the House of Commons can send it back, and no ser...

I hope all noble Lords were listening carefully to that. A lot of noble Lords were saying, “Hear,...

The constitutional position has changed radically with the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act. My noble f...

My noble friend knows perfectly well that the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act provides for a vote of n...

I must insist—

Noble Lords may get up only once, and the noble Lord has already done so.

The noble Countess has got up twice.

Oh!

My Lords, the interventions reflect what we have known throughout the passage of this Bill—and, i...

My Lords, it had not been my intention to take part in this debate because I read in the newspape...

My Lords, I find myself torn between pragmatism and principle—the principle of parliamentary demo...

My Lords, if this amendment is passed, this day, 30 April, should be called hypocrisy day because...

We all know what the intention of the amendment is: not to improve Brexit but to impale it. What ...

Where is Francis Urquhart?

I am glad that the noble Lord is still awake. I take it as a compliment. In 2016, Mr Clegg said c...

My Lords, I am not a natural ditherer. I am very—perhaps overly—decisive. However, I did hesitate...

My Lords, as somebody who has not so far spoken in one of these debates, I want to make a brief c...

My Lords—

My Lords, I think we have now heard, especially if what has been said is true, that the House wil...

My Lords—

Minister!

My Lords, with all courtesy to the noble Lord, perhaps he would get the feeling of the House, whi...

My Lords, I thought this amendment was about Parliament having a say. It is unreasonable not to a...

I am grateful, but I am not surprised by the reception because this House is of course a cosy cab...

My Lords, I support this amendment. I feel that several of my noble friends have exaggerated its ...

My Lords, first, I thank all the contributors to this debate. It is right that we have taken the ...

My Lords, I ask the noble Lord to be careful. He is a Member of the European Parliament and knows...

I was a Member of the European Parliament, but I also know that the vote of the European Parliame...

Will the Government confirm also that that Motion will be amendable in both Houses?

I am not going to dictate what Parliament might want to do with that Motion or any other. Members...

Will the Minister answer the other question: will it be binding on the Government?

Of course it will be binding on the Government. If Parliament rejects the deal we have negotiated...

I ask the Minister to clarify one other point, which we did clarify in Committee: if Parliament r...

If Parliament rejects the agreement, there is nothing for us to legislate further on. It has been...

Returning to the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, I thought I heard David Davis sugges...

I have not seen David Davis’s comments but I am sure what he said was true and appropriate.