European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 5) Bill

Will my noble friend also remind the House that the Cabinet Secretary warned that there would be ...

Yes, he did. I have kept away from the debate on Northern Ireland. I had one year there as a dire...

My Lords, it is a genuine pleasure to follow the noble Lord. He and I crossed swords many times i...

My Lords, is my noble friend saying that he will vote against Second Reading?

No, of course not. I accept the procedures of this House, but there will come an opportunity for ...

My Lords, I support the Bill and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, for taking up the mantle of...

My Lords, are these not the same people who warned us, when we voted three years ago, that pandem...

I think that the noble Lord is somewhat out of date. There has been a serious impact on the econo...

My Lords, is it not a question of weighing the short-term inconveniences against the long-term pi...

That is not the consensus of reputable economists, who all say that we will do worse outside the ...

Will the noble Baroness comment on whether she is satisfied that the drafting of the Bill is wate...

It would take a braver woman than I to say that it is watertight. I do not know whether there is ...

My Lords, I had planned to be at the National Theatre tonight, on date night with my wife. We had...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, with his crystal clear ...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure for me to follow the noble Lord, Lord Howell, who is the chair ...

There are two swallows.

My noble friend Lady Deech did not move an amendment; nor did the noble Lord, Lord Howell. I am t...

For the sake of the record, would the noble Lord confirm to the House that he is doing all he pos...

I am sorry to say that some of the noble Lord’s friends this afternoon did not even have the cour...

My Lords, I shall be brief in making a point that I regard as fundamental. The length of my speec...

My Lords, not only is the procedure relating to this Bill unacceptable and unconventional, but th...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Deech. I have great respect f...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Anderson. He is absolutely right to hi...

The noble Lord is both wrong and right. He is right that the referendum was a simple choice. What...

I am precisely proposing a compromise, which is to take the Prime Minister’s deal, which is the b...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way. I say to the noble Lord, Lord Howell, that people were con...

The noble Lord makes a very powerful further argument for the second referendum. I support his ar...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, always gives a compelling and fascinating speech, but ther...

My Lords, I am not going to give the speech that I had planned to give at this late stage of the ...

My Lords, the Brexit debate has increasingly reminded me of the film that shot James Dean to fame...

My Lords, I agree with only two things that the noble Lord, Lord Warner, said: one is the lack of...

Can I ask the noble Lord a question? Had the referendum gone the other way, would he and his frie...

Of course we would have accepted the referendum result—we would have had to. We would not have sa...

Could the noble Lord clarify the results he has just cited? When he says, “against”, is it no dea...

It is no deal versus remain in the EU. That is what the question was in the YouGov poll this morn...

I have got the figures right here. The latest YouGov poll, which I looked at today, says that 37%...

That is very different from the poll I saw. Perhaps after this debate the noble Lord and I might ...

My Lords, we need the protection provided by the Bill because the potential losses from a no-deal...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Stern, whose informed comments about th...

My Lords, this Bill is misconceived in every aspect. It mandates the Prime Minister to seek an Ar...

We all have immense respect for my noble friend, but he has associated concepts and thoughts with...

I have the greatest respect for my noble friend. He is of course right that that was the founding...

My Lords—

I must proceed, if my noble friend will allow me. I am grateful to him.

I find it extraordi...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Howarth. I want to adopt many of ...

My Lords, does the noble Lord not think that we should take our lead from the House of Commons, w...

As I tried to say earlier, there is a massive disconnect between the current composition of the H...

Is the noble Lord saying that the House of Commons should not be expressing a view on the conduct...

I am saying that 55% of voters at the moment apparently thinking that Parliament is attempting to...

My Lords, it is normally form in this House to say what a pleasure it is to follow the previous s...

I am looking at this from the perspective of the 17.4 million people who voted to leave.

I understand that, but you would think that they are the only people who count. What about the 6 ...

I thank my noble friend for giving way. How many of the 17.4 million does my noble friend think v...

Is the noble Lord inviting me to respond? Of course I will if he wishes me to do so.

My noble friend, as always, has taken the best parts of my speech. However, he is right.

We...

Does the noble Lord therefore support a bad deal? Is that what he is saying?

I am certainly not saying that. I am saying that you have to recognise the realities of the 45 ye...

Does the noble Lord recall that the noble Lord, Lord King of Lothbury, is acknowledged to have be...

The noble Lord, Lord Warner, makes a point, but I did not want to get into that.

What has n...

My Lords, I was on the phone at 7 am to one of my fellow directors in Australia. I said to him, “...

I have been a member of the Finance Bill Sub-Committee for many years, though not absolutely ever...

Absolutely not. The noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, is here. She was a member of that committee, and...

Would the noble Lord give way?

Do not ruin my momentum, please; I will give way in a second. Nothing has been agreed.

I have great sympathy with the point made by the noble Lord. Is it not a fact that it was the Eur...

The noble Lord, with all his experience, has pre-empted what I was about to say next. The Europea...

The noble Lord should have gone.

The noble Lord may not like what I am saying, but it is true. There is lots he has not heard. It ...

My Lords, this is the first time I have spoken today, but I will try to be brief. I do not think ...

The overall result for the whole country, if you include Scotland and Northern Ireland, was 44% t...

The result was still in favour of leaving with no deal. We are told that emergency legislation is...

My Lords, I declare, as before, my various European interests, as detailed in the register. I hav...

It is a pleasure to speak in the gap and to follow the words of wisdom of my roommate and noble f...

My Lords, I am delighted to share the gap with the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe. I will say...

My Lords, I am happy to support the Bill from these Benches, and I thank my noble friend Lord Roo...

The noble and learned Lord referred to this as the greatest crisis since the Second World War. Br...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness. I remember that case very well, of course, though I did not ...

My Lords, as this is not, of course, a government Bill, I am sure noble Lords will be delighted t...

Before he sits down, could the Minister answer two questions? I asked the first earlier, and I wo...

Of course we do not. I can answer both his questions with the same statement. The Government will...

My Lords, I did not hear much compromise in that last speech. The only reason we are here discuss...

My Lords, what about Russian money, for instance, which is another example?

Dirty Russian money flooding into London, which allegedly funded part of the campaign on digital ...

Is my friend, the noble Lord, aware also of the frightening predictions that have been made by th...

Yes. The NFU has been the quiet dog on this issue for three years. It never had a position on Bre...

That may be so, and I agree, but the president has recently come out very clearly on this, and it...

Yes, I absolutely agree, and I applaud the role that the new president has taken.

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord’s peroration. He may be aware that, contrary to what a num...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. My very last point—it is my very last point, because it follows ...