Elections Bill

—to the tried and tested simple majority voting system, also known as first past the post. I knew...

My Lords, we have heard from the Minister that the Bill intends to make substantial changes to ou...

My Lords, it is a very personal pleasure to welcome the noble Lord, Lord Moore, and say that I lo...

My Lords, I shall concentrate on Part 3, for today’s purposes at any rate, and will to some exten...

Hear, hear.

I imagine that I heard “Hear, hears” on the government side of the House, as I did among the Cros...

Hear, hear!

What do I mean by “independent”? Independent of all political parties—that is easy, but there is ...

My Lords, I must thank the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, for his particularly generous re...

My Lords, it is a great privilege and a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Moore, and to be ...

My Lords, it is a particular pleasure to have listened to the maiden speech of the noble Lord, Lo...

My Lords, I, too, pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Moore, on his very amusing maiden speech. I...

My Lords, over the past 200 years, historically significant Bills have come before Parliament to ...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Moore of Etchingham on a remarkable, welcome and am...

My Lords, I too join in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Moore, for his subtle and penetrating speec...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for the opportunity for his Elections Bill officials to have discu...

My Lords, I happily add my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Moore, for a splendid opening speech. I...

600.

Sorry, to 600. I am sure they would have done the former if they had had the chance. Needless to ...

My Lords, like others speaking today, I am concerned that the Bill has some serious flaws. In an ...

My Lords, I have a very different view of what the Government are proposing and the whole electio...

My Lords, the Government argue that this Bill will strengthen democracy, but I am not sure how th...

My Lords, I draw the House’s attention to my relevant interests as an elected councillor, and as ...

Probably.

Maybe that is what has induced this change: it was too confusing for elections to your Lordships’...

My Lords, I add my voice to those who have congratulated my good friend, the noble Lord, Lord Moo...

I warmly welcome the noble Lord, Lord Moore of Etchingham. His witty, erudite and insightful spee...

My Lords, I join in the many congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Moore, on his excellent maid...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Willetts, and I very much endorse...

My Lords, I rise with some diffidence, because almost everybody else in the House has much greate...

My Lords, what a treat it was to listen to the wonderful maiden speech from the noble Lord, Lord ...

It is nice, while welcoming that I follow the noble Earl, Lord Leicester, to disagree with everyt...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Moore of Etchingham, and welcome him t...

My Lords, I should first declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Associat...

My Lords, I too really enjoyed the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Moore, and I congratulate him o...

My Lords, it was a real pleasure to listen to the noble Lord, Lord Moore of Etchingham. I have ne...

My Lords, I join the lengthy welcome queue to congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Moore of Etchingh...

Well, I am sure we are very grateful to the noble Baroness for that moving conclusion to her very...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Moore, if he did not know it before, will now have the feeling tha...

My Lords, I welcome the noble Lord, Lord Moore, whose excellent maiden speech I thoroughly enjoye...

My Lords, I begin by associating myself with two themes that have been part of almost every other...

My Lords, this Bill is part of a power grab by the Government and it is hard to find any redeemin...

My Lords, this has been a compelling Second Reading. I too extend a very warm welcome to the Hous...

My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Moore, on his entertaining and reflective maide...

My Lords, I compliment my noble friend Lord True on his excellent introduction to this rather com...

My Lords, electoral law is perhaps a somewhat arcane topic, but it often defines a society becaus...

My Lords, this is a very interesting Bill. It gets us into an even bigger mess than we were in be...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to take part in this hugely rich and informative debate that has...

I crave your Lordships’ indulgence on two fronts. First, I was in a Select Committee which remove...

My Lords, I too very much enjoyed the maiden speech of the noble Lord, Lord Moore—sadly, he is no...

It was 0.000035%.

Yes, it was something like that. The Government often point to the suspected corruption in Tower ...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Moore of Etchingham, on his excellent ...

My Lords, the right to vote is indeed a privilege. I want to focus on Clause 9, the provision for...

My Lords, I would like to return again to the issue of overseas voters, following in the footstep...

My Lords, elections are a core process within a democracy. Credible electoral processes increase ...

My Lords, much has already been said, but I wanted to speak on Second Reading—not least because i...

No more, no more.

Oh, I have a few more minutes.

It is essential that we have grass-roots activism, grass-roo...

My Lords, it is a privilege to have heard so many important speeches by virtue of my position on ...

My Lords, first, I declare my interests as set out in the register. Like many noble Lords, I welc...

My Lords, I, too, start by congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Moore, on his excellent maiden spe...

My Lords, it sounds as if I had better get in some supplies of black coffee for the next few week...

In fact, it was meant to be the opposite.

Ah, then I misheard. None the less, on cue I can tell the House that we are banning party campaig...

Oh!

I knew they were coming.

There has been considerable demand for these reforms. Experts of a...