European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

My Lords, this is the first of the Motions before us today. In addressing it, I will briefly refl...

My Lords, I associate myself with much of what the noble Baroness has said about the role of your...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly because, like everyone else, I want to watch a football game ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Newby, has offered a tutorial in the constitution. I am a relative...

My Lords, this may be the last time I address this House on a point of substance—unless my health...

My Lords, I am sure I can speak for the whole House in saying that I very much hope that that wil...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate. Not many people had much t...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

My Lords, the issue of environmental protections spanned several hours of debate in our House, bo...

Tabled by

Lord Krebs

My Lords, while not moving my Motion B1, I should like first to thank the Minister for and acknow...

My Lords, to say that I am fuming at dropping this amendment would be to put it mildly. I am incr...

My Lords, at earlier stages of the Bill, when an amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, was deb...

My Lords, government Amendment B follows the debate that we have been having throughout the passa...

My Lords, as I said at the start of this debate, the issue of environmental protections has been ...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

That this House do not insist on its Amendment 4, to which the...

My Lords, we now come on to the issue of enhanced protection of retained EU law. We have always u...

My Lords, perhaps the most important words the Minister just said were to the effect that rights ...

My Lords, I give my strong support to government Amendment 4B in its unamended form and to Amendm...

First, I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Goldsmith, for his comments and for his support, ...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie

That this House do not insist on its Amendment 5, to which...

My Lords, with the leave of the House, I will speak also to Motions P and Q.

These are comp...

Tabled by

Lord Pannick

I thank the noble and learned Lord the Minister and the Solicitor-General for the care and attent...

My Lords, in the same spirit, I thank the Minister for the full and careful explanation he has gi...

My Lords, I hope the Government will keep an open mind in the future about the charter in the ter...

My Lords, I am grateful to all those who have spoken in this debate, in particular the noble Lord...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie:

My Lords, with the leave of the House, I will speak also to Motion L and Motion M. The scope of t...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble and learned Lord for setting out the Government’s case ...

My Lords, in following what was said by the noble Lord, Lord Lisvane, I will make one observation...

My Lords, there are two stages in the mass of subordinate legislation that we will have: what is ...

I am obliged to noble Lords for their contributions. On the last point, it is not the Government’...

Moved by

Baroness Evans of Bowes Park

My Lords, as you will have noticed there has been a great deal of movement and debate on this iss...

Motion F1 has not been moved. Therefore, Motion F2 falls.

Motion F3 (as an amendment to Mot...

Moved by

Viscount Hailsham

My Lords, I shall formally move Motion F3, which is on the supplementary list. As your Lordships ...

I am grateful to my noble friend. He is indeed a friend. I have always found him both highly inte...

Oh!

Can he say whether he wishes to destroy Brexit—that is not a very parliamentary gesture, if I may...

Yes, it is perfectly true that I have had negotiations and talks with the Opposition Front Bench,...

Hear, hear!

My noble friend’s second question was whether I am seeking to frustrate Brexit. I do not believe ...

Is it not the case that the point my noble friend is making about Parliament has already been mad...

My noble friend Lord Garel-Jones was one of the best Deputy Chief Whips I have ever met—better ev...

The noble Viscount talks about the political consequences of votes. Given that leaving the Europe...

I am simply not going to speculate. The truth is that the world at the moment is extraordinarily ...

My Lords—

I am not going to give way. Much as I admire my noble friend, I am now going to proceed. I come t...

Let the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, intervene.

My Lords—

That is very kind of my noble friend but he has given me an opportunity to find my notes, so whil...

Moved by

Lord True

My Lords, I beg to move my amendment as set out on the supplement to the Marshalled List.

M...

No.

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This is the truth. It has actually been stated in terms by the noble Viscount. There seems to be ...

Oh!

Is it unacceptable? No, I am not giving way. I did not catch the remark opposite but I make the p...

My Lords, this is not a debate about the integrity of Mr Dominic Grieve, and I shall do my very b...

My Lords—

I will give way when I have finished my sentence. The very purpose of the amendment put forward b...

I apologise to the noble Lord for interrupting, but I may be helpful on House of Commons procedur...

The operative phrase in the noble Baroness’s observation was “the chances are”. I believe that, i...

The noble Baroness was right. It should be desirable that the other place could do what my noble ...

I am afraid that I disagree with my noble friend. As we know, the Speaker of the House of Commons...

Oh!

The noble Lord is sometimes very eager to give way. The noble Baroness the Leader of the Oppositi...

The noble Baroness said “the chances are”; that was the operative phrase in her remarks.

It...

My Lords, I support the Motion moved by the Minister and oppose that put forward in both versions...

Oh!

I am going there for a family celebration—his family.

There has been an extraordinary set o...

Yes.

Noble Lords opposite are living in a slight fantasy land if they think we could reach no deal wit...

My Lords, the amendment we are discussing does not rule out no deal; it lays down what will happe...

But we are also talking about Motions and amendments, and the distinction was the very point I wa...

My Lords—

I will give way in a minute. Noble Lords want to make meaningless the result of the election, in ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. Can he elaborate on a statement he has just made? Four months ag...

Parliament held a debate, Parliament voted, and Parliament decided to hold a referendum on this i...

Parliament authorised the referendum but it did not authorise the outcome of the discussions. Tha...

Article 50!

That of course is what Article 50 was about but it is also true that, during the election and dur...

My Lords—

I would like to make a little progress, if I may. How would the will of Parliament be determined?...

My Lords, the noble Lord asks about justiciability. It is one of the most fundamental principles ...

My Lords, I remind the noble Viscount, Lord Hailsham, and those noble Lords who, in reality, want...

I merely wish to ask the noble Lord whether he is asking the House to play a game of Trivial Purs...

My Lords, the pursuit will be far from trivial when the answer is seen.

It is our most sign...

My Lords, as the noble Viscount, Lord Hailsham, said, it is in the national interest that Parliam...

My Lords—

My Lords—

My Lords, I believe the House now wishes to hear from the Front Bench.

My Lords, we heard a sad story from the noble Viscount, Lord Hailsham, about the saga that has go...

My Lords, the Government have fully engaged with the issues that have been raised by Parliament a...

I thank the noble Baroness the Leader of the House for giving way. She has mentioned that agreein...

On the point of justiciability, I refer to the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, who expressed the positi...

My Lords, I listened carefully to the debate and I thank all noble Lords who took part. It ranged...

Oh!

Well, if it is not an axe it is something else. To ensure that the House of Commons is able to de...

My Lords, I sense that this House wants to come to a very early conclusion, so I will conclude by...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

My Lords, in the other place, much was made of the constitutional and practical concerns that app...

My Lords, I am disappointed that this amendment did not gather more support in the other place th...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Monks, for his speech. I did not agree with the sentiments, but I ta...

Moved by

Lord Duncan of Springbank

My Lords, the strength of feeling on this important issue has been evident each time your Lordshi...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister and his colleagues for what he has said and for what the ...

My Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend for what I think is absolutely the right decision. I...

My Lords, I think the humanitarian aspect of Brexit, especially in so far as it affects children,...

My Lords, I add our thanks to the Minister for the tribute that he paid to my noble friend Lord D...

My Lords, I think we are in full agreement in paying tribute not only to the noble Lord, Lord Dub...

Moved by

Lord Duncan of Springbank

My Lords, I hope I can be brief, as befits the hour. I thank again my noble friend Lord Patten fo...

My Lords, I think this is a very fine illustration of what this House has been able to do to the ...

My Lords, the profound uncertainty about the UK’s future relationship with the EU is the very rea...

My Lords, in Committee I added my name to an amendment with the noble Lord, Lord Patten, and the ...

My Lords, I was not keen on the amendment originally proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Patten of B...

You can please some of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time. ...

My Lords, as ever on this issue, we have brought forward some of the key aspects that are importa...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

My Lords, we come again to the issue of exit day. Both Houses have debated this issue extensively...

My Lords, I was one of those who proposed the amendment that has not found pleasure in the other ...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, for his remarks.

Hannay!

I do apologise; the time is getting late. It is right that this be laid down with clarity and cer...

Moved by

Baroness Goldie:

Moved by

Baroness Goldie:

Moved by

Lord Callanan

My Lords, the Commons voted by an overwhelming majority of 201 to reject the amendment tabled by ...

Moved by

Baroness Goldie:

Moved by

Baroness Goldie:

Moved by

Baroness Evans of Bowes Park

My Lords, appropriate scrutiny of delegated powers is crucial to ensuring that the Government are...

My Lords, it would be extremely churlish of me not to acknowledge the movement which the Governme...

I thank the Leader of the House for the generous remarks she made about the role of this House. I...

I am very interested in the noble Lord’s remarks. Were they not his remarks rubbishing the Foreig...

I am not sure that these are in any sense the same. I was merely criticising the Foreign Secretar...

The noble Lord’s eloquence is very diverting, but will he please speak to the Motion under consid...

I started by welcoming what the Leader of the House said about the sifting committee and defendin...

My Lords, the noble Lord was entirely right to touch on some of those things. I am very grateful ...

My Lords, I am sorry that the Government did not feel able to accept the amendment that your Lord...

My Lords, I can be very brief, because the noble Lord, Lord Newby, has noted exactly the same wor...

My Lords, the Government’s amendments deliver to this House parity with the Commons, ensuring tha...