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Labour Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 6 March 2024

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Currently held offices

• Member, UK Engagement with Space Committee (since 30 Jan 2025)
• Member, Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee (since 18 Nov 2024)

Recent appearances

• Football Governance Bill [HL] - Committee (6th Day): Amendment 250 18 Dec 2024

  My Lords, I specifically remember this as it involved Manchester United. It is propitious that the noble Lord, Lord Johnson, has arrived as it was his brother, the then Prime Minister, who said “I would drop a legislative bomb on this proposal”. Do your Lordships remember the language? That is precisely what happened and it killed it dead.

• Football Governance Bill [HL] - Committee (5th Day): Amendment 137 16 Dec 2024

  Do you think I should get up and answer that?

• Football Governance Bill [HL] - Committee (5th Day): Amendment 137 16 Dec 2024

  My Lords, I am a very happy Manchester United fan. The last few minutes of yesterday’s game were bliss; they reminded us of what happened in 1999 when we won the treble. I rise to talk again in relation to supporters’ trusts. I have been pressing this; I pressed it in debate the last week and, indeed, at Second Reading. The supporters’ trusts should be there on the face of the Bill. As...

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