Nationality and Borders Bill

My Lords, I have had the privilege of serving on the Joint Committee on Human Rights, which has p...

My Lords, the hallmarks of this Bill are illegality and inhumanity; the imposition of still great...

My Lords I declare a non-financial interest as president of Migration Watch. Your Lordships will ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the many noble Lords in this House who bring such expertise ...

My Lords, I, too, intend to concentrate on the one aspect of the Bill that should not be in the B...

My Lords, I believe this Bill is one of the most inhumane Bills yet put forward by the Government...

My Lords, there can be no doubting the sensitivity in both political and social terms of the poli...

My Lords, we are an island race and have been subject to many waves of immigration and invasion—s...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Leicester, and I agree with very much o...

My Lords, I welcome the long overdue ending of the injustice done to those deprived of the right ...

My Lords, over the Christmas break I had the chance to read two things in particular. The first w...

My Lords, I have had helpful discussions with Professor Katona, the medical director of the Helen...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts raised the issue of the UK population. T...

My Lords, it is important to see this Bill in its broader context, particularly in the light of t...

My Lords, I noted that in his opening speech the Minister pledged that the Bill is based on fairn...

My Lords, I cannot welcome the Bill. It does not deal with the protection and care that people ur...

My Lords, as a former Immigration Minister in this country, I have always been of the view that a...

My Lords, it has been a most interesting debate. I was rather surprised to hear the noble Lord, L...

My Lords, I should come clean in that my family, the Teversons, are migrants themselves. The Teve...

My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the Schwab and Westheimer Trusts, which help young as...

My Lords, working to see progress in tackling modern slavery has been a long interest and passion...

My Lords, few of us would risk crossing the channel in a flimsy, inflatable dinghy, so we assume ...

My Lords, I have very little experience in the making of laws; unlike the noble Lord who preceded...

My Lords, as we have already heard, several provisions in this Bill are a real cause for concern....

My Lords, it is a privilege to speak after the noble Baroness. I wondered how I might find a way ...

My Lords, I would like to reinforce what others have said about the Bill being an affront to huma...

My Lords, I am very sorry, but there is a five-minute Back-Bench speaking limit. Everybody else i...

I hear the noble Lord. Efficiency cannot be bought at the price of reduced fairness. My advice to...

My Lords, I welcome this legislation. Although many changes have been made in recent years, inclu...

My Lords, we have had some very fine speeches in this debate. I particularly congratulate my nobl...

My Lords, when you are speaking 51st on the Second Reading of a Bill which has already generated ...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, who always makes an outsta...

Me again.

My Lords, I am nearly finished. Are we seriously asking our officials to watch as people die, whi...

My Lords, the noble Baroness did say she was nearly finished and she nearly is not.

My Lords, in closing—

No!

—we cannot punish the victims we have created. I sit in this Chamber every day, hopeful that it i...

My Lords, I am not going to give most of the speech that I had prepared for today’s debate, becau...

I still feel indignant about the consequences, whether intended or unintended, of leaving the EU....

My Lords, there are two questions which I believe we are seeking to answer by this Bill. First, w...

My Lords, this feels a little like being back at school; with a name like Woolley, I am always ne...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Woolley, who made a most moving s...

My Lords, I begin with a short list of issues that I regard as priorities in trying to make this ...

World-beating.

I am sorry—world-beating. Perhaps either/or.

We are clearly not world-leading in saying “re...

My Lords, in my limited time I will speak today only to Clause 9, which seeks to strip British ci...

My Lords, I must begin with an apology. As I am new to your Lordships’ House, there was an error ...

My Lords, the Board of Deputies of British Jews quoted from the Torah in its briefing. I am afrai...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a research fellow in modern slavery at the University of Notti...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken today in what has been quite a long debate. I k...

I should like to make it clear that my correspondent said that she does not think that the Front ...

I thank the noble Baroness, and I know she would not have made that suggestion.

We are talk...

I am sorry to do this to the Minister, but the context of the Bill has to be seen in the light of...

I cannot read the mind of the Home Secretary, but the noble Lord is absolutely correct that that ...

I apologise for creating a slight extra delay, but I have listened in the last 21 minutes to the ...

It is also about illegal migrants.

Going back to international partners, we expect them to ...

Oh!

My Lords, we will have hours of debate on this in Committee, but that is our premise. The first s...