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Entered the House of Lords on 25 January 2006

Party was Bishop until 7 Jun 2020

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• House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill - Report (2nd Day) (Continued): Amendment 23 9 Jul 2025

  I thank the noble Lord for giving way. First, was Elizabeth I wrong when she faced a huge Privy Council and said, “It is too large for good governance”, and immediately reduced it to 30? The noble Lord says that numbers do not matter and that what matters is what we do here, but out there they are all saying that we are too large. Sometimes you do not need big bodies to do the job...

• Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - Committee (2nd Day): Amendment 47 8 Jul 2025

  My Lords, first of all, I want to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady May, for getting legislation about modern slavery on to the statute books. I want to say thank you very much, because we have people—some from my own country—coming here under that very disheartening reality. The second thing I want to mention is what the noble Baroness did with the Hillsborough inquiry. She resolved...

• Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life - Statement 7 Jul 2025

  I, too, welcome this Statement—it is a wonderful Statement. The Minister’s opening remarks give hope. I have a particular interest, as I have two grandchildren in Luton and one in Birmingham. The backdrop to Sure Start was that wonderful report that Robert Runcie published, called Faith in the City. The problems then were that residents faced social and economic decline, with poor...

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