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Illegal Immigration - Statement (14 Dec 2022)

Lord Newby: ..., I am afraid I doubt the generosity of spirit shown consistently by this Government. Far from generosity of spirit, their whole approach has been mean-spirited and unwelcoming. Moreover, this alleged generosity is now to be tempered by having an annual cap on asylum seekers. The Prime Minister says that this is to be set by Parliament, but he means that it will be set by the...

Queen’s Speech - Debate (1st Day): Motion for an Humble Address (10 May 2022)

Lord Newby: ...approach. They believe they know better than the company’s own management about what is good for it, and do so in the face of near-universal condemnation. The proposal also cuts across their alleged priority of levelling up. As Henri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, put it: “On the tests of whether it is good or bad for closing the north-south divide, the...

Procedure and Privileges - Motion to Agree: Amendment to the Motion (13 Jul 2021)

Lord Newby: ..., it is a huge improvement to be contemplating not voting through the Lobbies. Many of us have spent many of the happiest hours of our lives chatting to chums shuffling through the Lobbies, but the alleged benefits of being able to nobble Ministers and others going through the Lobbies is, frankly, greatly overdone. Having the continuing use of modern technology to vote, thus saving time,...

Queen’s Speech - Debate (1st Day): Motion to Adjourn (11 May 2021)

Lord Newby: .... What are they to be? We have no idea. I readily accept that the Government had some successes in last week’s elections, principally on the back of the success of the vaccination programme, and allegedly the Prime Minister is to follow up today’s speech with a speech about what the Government plan to do to stop the brain drain to the cities. But this smacks of a tactical move to try...

Fire Safety Bill - Commons Reason: Motion A1 (as an amendment to Motion A) (28 Apr 2021)

Lord Newby: ...that would flow, which would be voluminous. He had us almost in tears at the prospect of these terrible consequences. There was not a word of explanation as to why, given that the Government allegedly want to do what is right, in the seven months since this Bill’s Second Reading they have made no progress whatsoever in bringing forward their own proposals to deal with the issues now....

Conduct Committee - Motion to Agree: Amendment to the Motion (20 Apr 2021)

Lord Newby: ...context is crucial. As we debate this report, the Commons is conducting several different inquiries into the rules around lobbying and the registration of ministerial interests. There are serious allegations about the role of the former Prime Minister, former civil servants and serving Ministers. Furthermore, the Government are planning, in the light of potential foreign interference in...

Integrated Review - Statement (17 Mar 2021)

Lord Newby: ...to strike trade deals with countries that violate international standards and human rights. Will the Minister tell us whether that is really the Government’s position? If so, what does their alleged commitment to human rights actually amount to? Throughout the review, the Government largely airbrush out the importance to the UK in every possible respect of the EU. They fail to admit that...

United Kingdom Internal Market Bill - Commons Reasons and Amendments: Motion C1 (as an amendment to Motion C) ( 9 Dec 2020)

Lord Newby: ...an agreement. It seems like an extraordinary coincidence, but when we read what he says about it, we see that there is no coincidence at all. This so-called agreement, in which everything is allegedly resolved, is simply a point in the negotiations at which it was appropriate for the UK Government to announce some progress. Although a number of principles have been agreed, the letter that...

House of Lords: Allowances - Motion to Agree: Amendment to the Motion ( 6 May 2020)

Lord Newby: ..., and I hope the noble Baroness the Leader will take this opportunity to repudiate not just the proposals in it but also its tone. Having said that, I was pleased to see that the Government are allegedly considering replacing the current House with an elected Chamber, a proposition that has of course been supported in the Lobbies in the past by Members of the Cabinet, including Michael...

G7 - Statement ( 3 Sep 2019)

Lord Newby: ...such a deal? How long would it be, even in theory, before any such deal could begin to make up for the loss of trade that we expect to flow from a no-deal Brexit? The Statement does not mention the allegedly prolonged and acrimonious session at the summit in which the Prime Minister joined forces with the EU in opposing the readmission of Russia to the G7. Can the Leader confirm that the...

Leaving the European Union - Statement (22 May 2019)

Lord Newby: ...the permission of the Leader of the House or the Government. We just did it, and the Commons has the ability to do it to the withdrawal agreement Bill, with or without government approval. So this alleged concession is a nothing, like all the rest. Tomorrow, we are having a proxy poll on Brexit. We obviously do not know the results but we can be pretty confident that those parties which...

Further Developments in Discussions with the European Union under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union - Motion to Take Note (11 Mar 2019)

Lord Newby: ...of otherwise dissident Tory Back-Benchers. Having failed to make any progress whatever in achieving a breakthrough on this, and facing another overwhelming defeat tomorrow, the Prime Minister is allegedly travelling to Strasbourg this evening to try to make more progress in an evening than a bevy of officials and Ministers—with or without a codpiece—has achieved in recent weeks....

European Council - Statement ( 2 Jul 2018)

Lord Newby: ...Thursday night to be the main burden of her intervention on Brexit. The Times, for example, led with the headline: “EU putting lives at risk over Brexit, warns May”. Did the Prime Minister, as alleged, accuse the Commission of, “putting obstacles in the way of a new security pact”? If so, what response did she receive? If she really raised security but failed entirely to mention...

European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - Report (4th Day) (30 Apr 2018)

Lord Newby: ...of key regulatory bodies, while accepting that we will not have the benefits nor the influence that we enjoy today. In area after area, they accept that we will be powerless rule-takers. The alleged sunny uplands of being in a more favourable position in any of these areas have, to put it mildly, been shrouded in fog. On the key issue of the customs union, vital to the future of Northern...

Sexual Harassment in Parliament - Statement (30 Oct 2017)

Lord Newby: My Lords, I too thank the noble Baroness the Leader of the House for repeating the Statement and indeed for the speed with which the Government have responded to the allegations that were reported over the weekend. As the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, has said, this is not a party political issue and it is not even an issue for one House versus the other. The key line in the Statement with...

Clerk of the Parliaments - Retirement of Sir David Beamish KCB (24 Apr 2017)

Lord Newby: ...House by following the same pursuit, but if he did, I doubt whether committee members would have been aware of it. Sir David began his career in an era when the regulation of banks in the City was allegedly done largely by the raising of the Governor of the Bank of England’s eyebrow. In David’s case, he expressed his displeasure, in committees at least, by knitting his brow and...

European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill - Report ( 7 Mar 2017)

Lord Newby: ...matched by the anger of those who wish to remain—particularly young people, who see their life chances being jeopardised. I am afraid that there is simply no happy consensus emerging about the alleged sunny uplands of being outside the EU—quite the opposite.

The Economy - Motion to Take Note (28 Apr 2016)

Lord Newby: ..., “I am terribly sorry but you can’t. We can’t afford the time or the money”. If that had been an order from France, he would have been on the next plane. The growth rates of some of the alleged El Dorados of the BRICs and elsewhere are now lower than those in the EU and the challenges of corruption and weak legal rights in many of them have not materially abated. The overwhelming...

Tax Avoidance and HSBC — Statement (23 Feb 2015)

Lord Newby: ...will now repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer given by my right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to an Urgent Question in another place. The Statement is as follows. “The allegations about tax evasion at HSBC Swiss are extremely serious. They have been the subject of extensive investigation by HMRC. Money has been recovered for the Exchequer and HMRC continues to...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Legal Aid ( 6 May 2014)

Lord Newby: In the vast majority of cases, legal aid fees are based solely on factors such as the type of alleged offence, the length of trial and the amount of paperwork involved. They are not increased just because a defendant is “high-profile”. We plan to reduce these fees in 2015, subject to consideration of a number of reviews currently taking place. In addition, a very small number of the...


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