Results 1–20 of 3317 for speaker:Mr Ian Gilmour

Points of Order (15 Jul 1991)

Mr Ian Gilmour: Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will be aware that that subject was not debated in Committee. A vast number of hon. Members want it to be debated, and it will not be understood outside the House if it is not. I refer to a letter that you, Mr. Speaker, sent to an hon. Member—which I believe is not confidential—in which you stated that because there was so much pressure...

Business of the House ( 6 Jun 1991)

Mr Ian Gilmour: Apart from the important question of principle raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd), may I ask my right hon. Friend to explain what possible excuse there can be for guillotining a Bill that the whole House supports?

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (20 Mar 1991)

Mr Ian Gilmour: The hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) made several cogent points to which I shall return later. First, I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer on a thoroughly civilised as well as an astute Budget. My right hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury (Sir T. Raison) and my hon. Friends the Members for Broxtowe (Mr. Lester) and for Hornchurch (Mr. Squire) and...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (20 Mar 1991)

Mr Ian Gilmour: Football pools are indeed a lottery. I welcome also what is being done by the sports and arts trusts. However, as I understand it, the scale of benefit is very much smaller than would be provided by a national lottery. Although I welcome what is being done, I regret the fact that a national lottery will not be set up. I hope that that will be remedied next year. Having been a heavy opponent...

Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill (18 Mar 1991)

Mr Ian Gilmour: I understand that the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan) intends to change his vote from an abstention to a vote against the Bill. The right hon. and learned Member for Aberavon (Mr. Morris) is changing from a vote for the Bill to a vote against it. The deputy Leader of the Opposition, the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley), has changed his...

Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill (18 Mar 1991)

Mr Ian Gilmour: That is an uncharacteristically philistine point from my hon. Friend, which is singularly inapplicable to a Bill of this nature. Lord Hailsham, Lord Bridge of Harwich, Lord Ackner, Lord Donaldson of Lymington and Lord Goodman variously said that the Bill would not be British justice, that it would damage the rule of law and that it would debase the standards of British justice. Where is the...

Orders of the Day — War Crimes Bill (18 Mar 1991)

Mr Ian Gilmour: I have not been making excuses. The crimes were appalling. I am not sure that I, or even the hon. Gentleman, would have been heroic enough to disobey orders, and be shot for doing so. The hon. Gentleman may be confident about his courage—I do not dispute his courage—but he is demanding great courage from everyone. But that is a relatively minor point. The main point is that these people...

The Gulf (15 Jan 1991)

Mr Ian Gilmour: The right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn) was very dismissive about the procedure that has been adopted tonight. He may remember that a motion for the Adjournment brought down a Government in 1940, so it is hardly a contemptible way of doing things. The right hon. Gentleman was certainly able to express his views comfortably, and he did so very well. Unlike the right hon. Gentleman,...

The Gulf (15 Jan 1991)

Mr Ian Gilmour: No. I have only 10 minutes. We all know that the United States has domestic political difficulties with its strong pro-Israeli lobby, but it is surely the task of America's allies to help the President to withstand that lobby and not meekly to support it. It would be grotesque to become bogged down in what is linkage and what is not. We are not playing games; we are playing for high stakes....

Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill: General Requirements as to Licensed Services (25 Oct 1990)

Mr Ian Gilmour: The hon. Gentleman is not being altogether fair to Lord Wyatt because 40 years ago he was on the extreme left and now he is on the extreme right. Surely that demonstrates due impartiality.

Orders of the Day — Broadcasting Bill: General Requirements as to Licensed Services (25 Oct 1990)

Mr Ian Gilmour: If the right hon. Gentleman is right in assuming that the ITC will behave reasonably—which is what my right hon. Friend the Minister and I think—why do we need the amendment?

Social Security Benefits (Uprating) (24 Oct 1990)

Mr Ian Gilmour: I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend on his partial uprating of child benefit while deeply regretting that it has not been uprated in full. What my right hon. Friend has done is a great deal better than nothing. As the only countries in the world which give more for the first child are Malta and Iran, can my right hon. Friend explain what particularly persuaded the Government to follow...

Prayers: The Gulf ( 7 Sep 1990)

Mr Ian Gilmour: The hon. Member for Clackmannan (Mr. O'Neill) struck a chord in the whole House when he talked about amateur strategists and studio war games. I think that the House will agree that the attempted distinction between offensive and defensive weapons is nearly always totally unrealistic. The two impressive speeches from the Front Benches today, by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for...

Prayers: The Gulf ( 7 Sep 1990)

Mr Ian Gilmour: That is quite untrue. The 1967 war was begun by an attack on Egypt by Israel. I can only refer my hon. Friend to General Rabin, who was the commander of the forces at the time and therefore might be considered to be fairly authoritative on the subject. He said that he thought that President Nasser had no intention of attacking. The situations are not exactly the same, but clearly what has...

Bill Presented: Aid and the Environment (26 Jun 1990)

Mr Ian Gilmour: rose—

Prime Minister: Engagements (22 May 1990)

Mr Ian Gilmour: In view of my right hon. Friend's successful meeting last Saturday and the terrible killings in Palestine during the past few days, does she see any sign of an Israeli equivalent to Mr. de Klerk in Palestine?

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (21 Mar 1990)

Mr Ian Gilmour: I am not sure from the comments of the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) whether it is his party's policy that we should enter the exchange rate mechanism straight away, but I agree with the Government's view that the current rate of inflation would make that unwise, if not impossible. Like the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, I welcome many measures in the Budget, which I...

Bills Presented: Local Government Finance (18 Jan 1990)

Mr Ian Gilmour: The hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) certainly found a brilliant solution to Labour's policy-making difficulties: to have no policy at all, and to say magnanimously that if and when he had a policy we would be allowed to discuss it. That strikes me as marvellous technique, and I recommend it to some of his shadow Cabinet colleagues. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State opened the...

Bills Presented: Local Government Finance (18 Jan 1990)

Mr Ian Gilmour: In England. I am happy to tell my hon. Friend that I abstained on every part of the Scottish legislation. My hon. Friends and I opposed the original legislation on four main grounds. The first was the obvious ground that the tax is wholly unfair. That is obvious from its name, apart from anything else: a Government who were doing something fair and sensible would not need to come up with an...

Opposition Day: Economic Policy (31 Oct 1989)

Mr Ian Gilmour: The hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) envisaged a seminar to be attended by the Prime Minister, Labour Members and himself. That is an enticing thought. I do not like seminars, but I should like to be present at that one. There seemed to be something of a black hole in the policy that the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed outlined, but he made some interesting remarks about the...


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