Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill

My Lords, I want to say some words in favour of this Bill. One might assume that we had a situati...

Does the noble Lord accept that the Times headline writer might not have been quite accurate, and...

It is no more inaccurate than any other headline that I have seen. I accept that it is a complex ...

My Lords, perhaps I should declare my position as a former Times headline writer, from which I am...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady O’Loan provided an analysis of the Bill in granular detail. We hav...

My Lords, two or three times a year I attend, for reasons unconnected with this Bill, human right...

My Lords, today we have heard from many noble Lords of their personal experiences of the Troubles...

My Lords, I apologise for not putting my name down to speak. Having listened to the whole debate,...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Sentamu, with that ...

I absolutely take the point the noble Lord is making, but some polling suggests that significant ...

I do not for a minute dispute that people have different motives for their objections, and they m...

More importantly, all of the victims’ groups are opposed to the Bill. It is quite difficult to ge...

I thank the noble Lord for that intervention, which is obviously important —it was my final point...

My Lords, this has been a very powerful, informed and serious debate. In fact, nothing else could...

My Lords, I said in my opening remarks some hours ago that I have found this legislation challeng...

That is not a justification for embodying it in statute.

The noble and learned Lord touches on some of the issues that have also troubled me in dealing wi...

I want to interject the fact that in the 1970s, a process was adopted which prevented prosecution...

The noble Baroness has asked me this question a number of times before. The Public Prosecution Se...

My Lords, I thank the Minister. His comments tonight have been very helpful to the House. He has ...

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