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Quality of the components of the UK's soft power, as listed in chapter 2 of the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy – Lord Wallace of Saltaire.
My Lords, the last Prime Minister but three made great play of the distinction between “people from somewhere” and “people from anywhere”. I thought, at the time, that the real people from anywhere were those who try to avoid paying their taxes and arrange their financial affairs somewhere else—in offshore financial centres and elsewhere. Could the Minister assure us that part of...
My Lords, I am a mongrel Scots-Englishman, with a father who served in a Highland regiment and a son in Edinburgh, so I am a natural unionist. However, it is clear that, if we are to maintain the United Kingdom, its constitutional arrangements must change. We should face the real possibility that we might not maintain the union. As I came in today, I was thinking of the conference that took...
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Entered the House of Lords in 1995
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